Category: Literature

• Dr. Tara A. Bynum Detects Friendship and Joy in 250-Year-Old Correspondence

  Posted on Oct 2nd

  The word archive can hold many meanings. As a noun, it refers to a repository of collected information. As a verb, to […]

• Jason Steinhauer, author of History, Disrupted, on campus March 28

  Posted on Feb 27th

  In this rapidly changing world, it takes work to keep up with the daily onslaught of information and demands on our attention […]

• Dr. Johanna Drucker Traces the Origins of the Alphabet

  Posted on Aug 30th

  Free Public Lecture – 4:30 P.M. Tuesday, September 20 at the Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium “A B C D E F […]

• A Good Year for Book Sales

  Posted on Jun 1st

  Most people love a sale. Make it one of the most significant used book sales in the state, and you can bet […]

• Friends Book Sale: Enriched by the Generous Donation of Dr. Lewis Bosworth

  Posted on Mar 16th

  “As a linguist by training I thrive on language – from bits like sounds to syllables to words to sentences and more […]

• The Friends sponsor Jarrett Adams for the Wisconsin Book Festival

  Posted on Nov 9th

  AIRED ON C-SPAN2 DECEMBER 12 | WATCH IT HERE Redeeming Justice (Convergent Books, Sept 2021) is not just the title of his […]

• Friends Book Sales in the Pandemic Era: October 20-23

  Posted on Oct 9th

  Like many other community events, the Friends of UW-Madison Libraries’ biannual used book sale was disrupted by the emergence of COVID-19 in […]

• Digging for Higher Insights

  Posted on Feb 15th

  For Dr. Eddie R. Cole, the past can contribute to conversations in the present. In his new book, The Campus Color Line: […]

• Joshua Calhoun discusses Renaissance-era Paper with Shakespeare actor Sarah Day

  Posted on Sep 24th

  The Friends of UW-Madison Libraries hosted Dr. Joshua Calhoun via livestream on September 24, 2020 to talk about his discoveries while writing his […]