“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...
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...
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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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s latest building-wide exhibition, “+ The Art of Collaboration,” explores the excitement and power of how separate elements combine to make things that are new, beautiful, strange, and memorable. On view from...
“Text and Textile,” on view at Beinecke Library from May 3 through Aug. 12, explores the intersections of text and textile in literature and politics, from images of Eve spinning in a 13th-century manuscript to the mill girls of New England in the 19th...
“The North American West has been inhabited for millennia, but our vision of its history and cultures has been shaped, perhaps disproportionally, by the modern invention of photography,” says George Miles, the William Robertson Coe Curator of Western...