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Special Collections Research Center History Highlights

Leopold von Ranke in his library, early 1880s

Posted on Feb. 24, 2020, 11:45 a.m.

Let the Reader Emerge! Milestones of the Syracuse University Libraries

Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month in Books

hispanic heritage month

Posted on Feb. 20, 2020, 1:15 p.m.

Six Book Highlights from Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month

Kenya National Archives

Three Kenya Archivists standing with two female SU Libraries staff

Posted on Feb. 17, 2020, 2:48 p.m.

The Kenya archive collections comprise a large variety of materials which are mostly primary source government documents.

Unfaithful: Marriage Reform and Utopian Dreams

Book cover with image of 1800s couple

Posted on Feb. 13, 2020, 12:31 p.m.

Radical reform movements, including the Oneida Community in upstate New York and the Free Love Club and the Unitary Home in New York City.

New Collections Resources, Winter 2020

Interior of Carnegie Library looking toward vaulted ceiling

Posted on Feb. 11, 2020, 3:56 p.m.

Check out the newly acquired resources:

December January 2020 News Wrap Up

Black students sitting in classroom

Posted on Feb. 4, 2020, 1:48 p.m.

Review, upcoming events and newly processed collections

Information Literacy and The High School to College Transition

Bird first floor

Posted on Feb. 3, 2020, 5 p.m.

What should students learn in high school in order to be prepared for college-level research?

SU Libraries’ Discovery Team

Snow in front of Bird Library

Posted on Jan. 28, 2020, 2:07 p.m.

Providing easily accessible information to our communities.

An Act of Moral Courage

A 1943 Syracuse Herald-Journal article about Japanese-American students.

Posted on Jan. 28, 2020, 1:55 p.m.

Tsuneishi, a 1943 graduate of Syracuse University praised Tolley for accepting Tsuneishi and “some of 100 of my Japanese American colleagues"

Writing over Medieval Texts in Renaissance Europe

Two pages of a medieval manuscript with red, blue, and black text

Posted on Jan. 21, 2020, 2:27 p.m.

Breviary on vellum, or a book that contains daily services recited by members of the Roman Catholic Church

Decade of Architecture Books

Barbara Opar in room with books behind her and architecture display on table

Posted on Jan. 16, 2020, 9:27 a.m.

A list of the most influential architecture books of the past decade.

Happy New Year from SCRC!

words happy new year lit behind black sky and fireworks

Posted on Jan. 15, 2020, 2:38 p.m.

Invitation from our William Wallace Denslow Collection

Boxing the Collections with a Box Making Machine

Posted on Dec. 17, 2019, 2:59 p.m.

Interview with David Stokoe

Giving Thanks for our Sound Beat Partners

Sound Beat team: 6 people standing shoulder to shoulder, smiling and facing camera

Posted on Dec. 11, 2019, 3:23 p.m.

Thankful for the support of staff, interns and campus partners.

Marketing and Publicity and Press, Oh My!

White and red poster advertising The Wizard of Oz film and picturing Judy Garland.

Posted on Dec. 10, 2019, 3:22 p.m.

The marketing campaign for The Wizard of Oz film

Getting Pulled In

Black and white image of couples of men and women holding hands and dancing.

Posted on Dec. 3, 2019, 3:41 p.m.

Photos from the Syracuse University Military and World Wars Reference Collection.

November 2019 News Wrap Up

Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy of Duke University

Posted on Nov. 27, 2019, 3:57 p.m.

Recap of events and newly processed collections.

Katsushika Hokusai as Book Illustrator

Two interior pages of a book with wood block prints

Posted on Nov. 20, 2019, 4:25 p.m.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese painter and ukiyo-e printmaker

James Thornton and The Syracuse State School

White page with a list of entries on top of tan folder

Posted on Nov. 13, 2019, 8:41 a.m.

Syracuse State School was a facility that cared for mentally disabled children and, in some cases, adults.

University Press Week, SU Press Author Sean Kirst Discusses ‘Community’

Sean Kirst giving a radio interview in a red plaid shirt

Posted on Nov. 7, 2019, 8:52 a.m.

Syracuse University Press book “The Soul of Central New York.”

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