Post contributed by Laurin Penland, Library Assistant for Rubenstein Technical Services For someone like me who studied Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness in school, the Congo River can play an outsized role in my imagination as a place of brutal Western imperialism. So, you can imagine, how, when I was carefully paging through a … Continue reading Diary Foreshadows Conviction for Involvement in Slave Trade
Post contributed by Laurin Penland, Library Assistant for Technical Services Warning: Some of the language in this blog post is outdated and considered offensive today. There are also descriptions of violence against African Americans in the South during Reconstruction. The way in which archivists think about Reconstruction (1865-1877) in the United States can sometimes determine … Continue reading “The Arm of Justice Cannot—Will Not Sleep”: Radical Republicans during Reconstruction in the South
Post contributed by Laurin Penland, Library Assistant for Manuscript Processing in Technical Services Locus, the Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, was started in 1968 by Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf as a science-fiction news and fan zine, and it’s still going! For all of the years that the staff have … Continue reading Locus Archives Document the History of Sci-Fi
Post contributed by Laurin Penland, Library Assistant for Technical Services Update: Coming Out Day has been postponed due to rain and will be happening October 27th. In celebration of Coming Out Day on October 11th, I would like to introduce our blog readers to a special scrapbook. Recently, the Rubenstein Library acquired and digitized the … Continue reading Coming Out and Going Out Since 1940
Post contributed by Laurin Penland, Library Assistant for Rubenstein Technical Services There is just too much to write about in the Lois Wright Richardson Davis family papers, a collection that tells the tale of a mother and her seven children divided by the American Civil War. For a relatively small collection (0.75 linear feet), the letters reveal … Continue reading Civil War Letters Grapple with Gender, Interracial Marriage, and Working-Class Life
Rob Amberg journeyed to the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina during the height of the back-to-land movement. It was a time when hippies and artists took John Prine’s advice and “blew up [their] TVs, threw away [their] papers, went to the country, and built [them] a house.” All kinds of folks retreated to the mountains … Continue reading Rob Amberg: Forty Years in Appalachia
The Rubenstein Library transitioned to working from home on March 17. The work of five departments and forty-one staff has continued despite this unexpected change in our daily work, and we continue to move forward on many exciting projects and initiatives, while taking this opportunity to think about our spaces, services, and work in new … Continue reading Gearing Up to Work from Home
Post contributed by Kelly Wooten, Laura Micham, and Laurin Penland. We were saddened to learn of Kate Millett’s passing on September 6, 2017. As many people have been writing and speaking about her legacy, we realized we are not alone in trying to grapple with the significance of her contributions to the feminist movement, to … Continue reading Breaking Every Taboo: A Remembrance of Kate Millett (1934-2017)
