Betsy Beinecke Shirley began collecting children’s books in order to share her childhood favorites with her grandchildren.“Story Time” was collected and edited by Beinecke curator Timothy Young.No casual collector, Shirley was the daughter of Walter...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era. He recalls that people there could easily list the regime’s injustices, but often struggled to describe a just alternative.This observation — people...