Author: April C. Armstrong *14

Wordless Wednesday #29

Wordless Wednesday #29

Selected by April C. Armstrong *14

The Slave Ship Brooks

The Slave Ship Brooks

Princeton is particularly rich in important copies of the Slave Ship Brooks, representations of which went viral at the end of the eighteenth century and helped in abolishing the trade in England. 

Wordless Wednesday #28

Wordless Wednesday #28

Selected by April C. Armstrong *14

Wordless Wednesday #27

Wordless Wednesday #27

Selected by Katie Zondlo

Nobody Turn Us Around

Nobody Turn Us Around

Last month, Kevin Kruse gave a public lecture entitled “Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government” as part of a series of events around the exhibition “Nobody Turn us Around” at Mudd Library.

Wordless Wednesday #26

Wordless Wednesday #26

Selected by Adrienne Rusinko

Wordless Wednesday #25

Wordless Wednesday #25

Selected by April C. Armstrong *14

Things That Go Bump in the Vault

Things That Go Bump in the Vault

Princeton University Library’s Special Collections, which hold materials spanning millennia across the globe, have a fair share of demonic depictions lurking on the shelves. One never knows which ghost, goblin, monster, or other feared spectre could possibly come traipsing through the vault’s locked door.

Wordless Wednesday #24

Wordless Wednesday #24

Selected by Dana Sheridan

Hans Christian Andersen’s Papercuts

Hans Christian Andersen’s Papercuts

Andersen was an impossible houseguest who often outstayed his welcome, but we are so glad to have these material witnesses to his talent.