Category: teaching

• The Cairns Collection and Art History Curatorial Studies 2018

  Posted on Feb 12th

  Images from our holdings of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin figure in the exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art curated by […]

• The Russian Revolution of 1917

  Posted on Jul 26th

  We are pleased today to host participants in “Ten months that shook the world: Russia’s revolutions in a global perspective. A workshop […]

• Romantic Circles — Newly Reviewed

  Posted on Jun 19th

  Katharine Van Arsdale’s recent “Internet review” in the June 2016 issue of College & research library news  of the web-based project “Romantic Circles” (itself celebrating its […]

• As Viewed from a Book Truck: Holding History

  Posted on Nov 10th

  We hosted a scaled-down version of the Holding History series in Special Collections during Anthony Grafton’s recent visit to Madison. Grafton, Henry Putnam University […]

• The Long S, Now Largely Extinct

  Posted on Oct 4th

  We had the opportunity last week to page through two volumes of our copy of Audubon’s double-elephant folio Birds of America with […]

• Lunar Eclipses as Viewed from Special Collections

  Posted on Sep 27th

  Tonight’s lunar eclipse, which coincides with what is known as a harvest moon, prompts us to offer several examples of depictions of lunar eclipses […]

• Holding History Kickoff Event

  Posted on Aug 12th

  We were delighted to welcome the July 21 kickoff Holding History event, which brought together campus and community partners and library donors with […]

• Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday

  Posted on Apr 23rd

  On this, Shakespeare’s birthday, we celebrate as well the depth of the Peter Pauper Press Collection in the Department of Special Collections, […]

• Snow Supplement

  Posted on Dec 23rd

  Since we in Madison are not destined to have much if any snow this week, enjoying instead temperatures in the upper 30s […]

• The Mendota Seminar, the Works of Shakespeare, and Special Collections

  Posted on Jun 20th

  We are delighted to welcome to Special Collections one session of this summer’s Mendota Seminar and to continue our collaboration with Prof. […]

• Last Week for Exhibit “On the Sunny Side”

  Posted on Oct 1st

  This will be the last week for our exhibit “On the Sunny Side,” showcasing books, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials from […]

• Geographies

  Posted on Dec 13th

  For this year’s annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Meridith Beck Sayre and Nicolas Jacobson, graduate students in history of […]