Exhibition Highlights: Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom By Pedro Machado and Olimpia Rosenthal Please be advised: This blog post, along with the exhibition Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and ... September 20, 2023
Processing Capra Press By Hal Parkinson Who creates a book? Is it the author, who writes the story that fills a book’s pages? ... September 11, 2023
A Chinful of Slang You Chirped a Chinful! Including Private Bill’s Dictionary of Service Men’s Chin Chatter [1943] is a bit of World War ... August 17, 2023
A Family Dictionary Ed Finegan and I have just submitted the Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary to Cambridge University Press. If you’re a ... August 3, 2023
Websteriana Any large collection of dictionaries will overflow with works by Noah Webster, but Madeline Kripke also had a collector’s eye ... July 26, 2023
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 3 of 3) A continuation from Part 2 of the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Subject Files I spent probably several ... July 17, 2023
The Ostroh Bible: A Book Encrusted with History By Becky Craft and Brandis Malone In Spring 2023, students in the History of the Book course (ILS-Z681) were tasked ... July 13, 2023
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 2 of 3) A continuation from Part 1, in which we began the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Correspondence ... June 21, 2023
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 1 of 3) The first step to transforming roughly 200 boxes of correspondence, typescripts, royalties, scrapbooks, photo albums, gin glasses, dioramas, typewriters, and ... June 12, 2023
Dig This Dictionary! Madeline Kripke was born in 1943, so she lived through the rise of teen culture and teen-directed marketing in real ... May 25, 2023