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While our Thordarson Collection is perhaps best known for its holdings of science and natural history on the one hand and Iceland […]
We are pleased today to host participants in “Ten months that shook the world: Russia’s revolutions in a global perspective. A workshop […]
The UW-Madison Libraries recently acquired a true first edition of Thoreau’s Walden, Or Life in the Woods published in 1854 by the […]
To celebrate Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday, we offer a preview of a new acquisition, the first edition of Walden, or, Life in […]
Our good friend Jim Dast just brought us two volumes to add to our very large Peter Pauper Press Collection. Both were […]
With Andrea Rolich of the Preservation Department, we were recently looking at the UW-Madison Libraries’ copies of the periodical Every Week, including […]
Our current exhibit, “Natural History :: Natural Philosophy,” includes much about that quintessential topic of 18th-century natural philosophy, electricity. On display are […]
An image of the “sea monk” or “monkish fish” in an announcement for this week’s Great Lakes Great Libraries conference in Madison caught […]
Please join us as Martha Glowacki reprises her lecture about the Chazen Museum exhibition “Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections” and […]
In celebration of Earth Day, we look back to a memorable acquisition — the 1,000,000th volume in the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries, […]
Splashes of spring green on the cover, frontispiece, and title page of the novel April’s sowing seem apt after a balmy April […]
John James Audubon (best known for his double-elephant folio Birds of America) drew a sharp distinction between the North American badger and […]