In conjunction with the celebration of Founders Day, which commemorates the establishment of the university by an act of the Connecticut Colony on Oct. 9, 1701, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will display three documents of early Yale...
In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the armistice of World War I, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will host the temporary display “Siegfried Sassoon: Scrapbook & Owen Johnson: From ‘Stover at Yale’ to ‘The Wasted Generation’”...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of David Sedaris, noted American humorist, author, and essayist.
Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1987,...
Around the Yale campus, C. Vann Woodward’s name is often associated with the Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, which he chaired in 1974. A new exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library explores how an earlier work...
“At a time when the world seems crazy for lots of wrong reasons, the Beinecke Library is happy to offer active counter-measures for a good cause, as we celebrate all who are mad for books with our new exhibition, ‘Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A...