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A horse-drawn carriage bus
Sheridan Libraries
Historic photos now available online
Published April 26, 2018
Photographs, slides, and portraits made available through the Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives
stack of old books
JHU Press to digitize more than 200 out-of-print books
Published April 10, 2018
Project supported by $200K grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities
Half-eaten cake
Sheridan Libraries
Literature-inspired creations take the cake
Published April 9, 2018
What if a book could nourish the body as well as the soul?
Sepia photo of two young black boys sitting on mules/horses that are connected to carriages
Special Collections
Century-old selfies
Published March 7, 2018 Video
Two undergrads create exhibit of historical African-American photos found in JHU's Special Collections
A crop image of a photo of African-American women aboard a ship in 1930
Exhibit
Freedom in many forms
Published Feb 2, 2018
Sheridan Libraries exhibit honors the ways black Americans have expressed freedom and empowerment
Hopkins history treasure hunt
Published Winter 2017
Dig a hole, crack a safe—You never know what will turn up from Hopkins' past / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Frederick Douglass
History project
Mapping Frederick Douglass
Published Nov 27, 2017
Students in Johns Hopkins graduate seminar research, visit regional sites of significance in young slave's life
This page spread shows, in heavily illuminated and painted script, images of Christ on the cross, plants, animals, and Mary
Exhibits
Curators' picks from 'Bibliomania'
Published Oct 19, 2017
Peabody exhibit shares 'rare and curious' items collected over the course of the library's 150 years
Lizzie Gilman reads from a paper and gestures with her right hand
Firebrand with a pince-nez
Published Fall 2017
Elisabeth Gilman, the youngest daughter of JHU's founding president, was a fierce advocate for social justice / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A woman in a lab coat and face mask dusts book shelves
Who you gonna call?
Dustbusters for a day
Published Aug 8, 2017 Photos
Volunteers go for clean sweep at George Peabody Library's annual day of service