An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.
Join us for the opening of “Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans at Beinecke Library.” David Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale, will introduce Dr. Walter O. Evans, who will speak about his life as a collector. A reception will follow.
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Dr. Patricia Ann Lott will discuss the story of Joseph Mountain, executed in New Haven in 1790, and the text published at the time of his execution, “Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain …”
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Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Greek-letter fraternity established by African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University on December 4, 1906.
The Zeta Chapter of ΑΦΑ was founded at Yale on April 10th, 1909 and re-activated on March 29th, 1913 by A.J. Allen, J.W. Anderson, Charles H. Wesley, E.E. Caple, John M. Ross, Beale Elliott, Nimrod Allen, William N. Bishop, Frank Adams, John H. Lewis, Aiken A. Pope and Charles W. Burton.
The beloved brass ensemble returns to the Beinecke Library for their annual holiday concert
Thomas Palmer and Paul Messier will discuss the printing of the photograph in photo books from the perspective of their remarkable careers in the field—pushing the boundaries of what is possible in printing books while preserving the history of the photographic medium. Thomas Palmer’s extraordinary work printing photography began with his many projects with printer and artist Richard Benson and continues to his current work making digital separations of photographs. We will hear from Thomas stories about printing as it has changed and developed throughout his career.
In concerts across Europe in the 1780s, the young Viennese virtuosa Maria Theresia Paradis made blindness visible, even audible. Her performances invited listeners and viewers primed by horror ballads and literary romance to experience her story of trauma and misfortune within the frame of fictional narratives of doomed innocence and victimized Gothic heroines.
Join us on December 6, 2023 at 6 PM at the Ives Main Library of the New Haven Free Public Library for a talk about preserving archives of activism.
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Join South African literary historian, author, and playwright Siphiwo Mahala for an up close look at the relationship between American writer Langston Hughes (1901-1967) and South African writer Bloke Modisane (1923-1986) through their correspondence collected in the Langston Hughes Papers at the Beinecke Library.
Mahala did research in the archives as part of his process for his play, “Bloke and His American Bantu,” which reimagines the friendship between Modisane and Hughes.
