What’s a poet with a large circle of friends, rich in words if limited in financial resources, to do when checking the names off his holiday list? For Langston Hughes, during the holiday season of 1950, the answer was to share some of his wit in homemade...
While food and beverages are strictly prohibited in the Beinecke Library’s reading room and classrooms, the library’s collections are full of objects, printed items, manuscripts, and other materials related to food culture for readers to feast upon, even...
The Beinecke Library’s extensive holdings in children’s literature will soon grow with the addition of the archive of renowned young-adult writer Judy Blume, opening new opportunities for future research, teaching, and exhibitions related to the field.
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More than 150,000 people visited the Beinecke Library’s ground floor and mezzanine public exhibition areas in the last year. Those who knew the building before its recent renovation have exclaimed, “It looks just the same!”
Indeed, the library, with its...
A collection of medieval English manuscripts that had been in private hands is on exhibition for the first time in the United States at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in a special, building-wide exhibition, “Making the Medieval English...
“Gather Out of Star-Dust: The Harlem Renaissance & The Beinecke Library,” a major building-wide exhibition, is on view Jan. 13–April 17 at the library, 121 Wall St.The Harlem Renaissance was a time when “African American cultural and intellectual...