Author: April C. Armstrong *14
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
Selected by April C. Armstrong *14
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.
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.
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.