A Box within a Box One of the most satisfying moments in unpacking the Kripke Collection so far was when I reached into a box ... April 5, 2023
Eric Partridge in a Pear Tree Eric Partridge (1894–1979) wrote several flawed but popular and influential dictionaries in the mid-twentieth century, including A Dictionary of Slang ... March 30, 2023
Selections from Flora + Fauna: Mary Ellen Solt’s “Forsythia” in Flowers in Concrete When Erin Chiparo and I started planning for the exhibition Flora + Fauna: A Bounty of Beasts and Botanicals, we ... March 23, 2023
The Civil War Diary of Charles Brother There is nothing like holding an old diary in your hands to connect you with the daily life of a ... March 21, 2023
“We hammer away!”: a look at Soviet Propaganda Posters By Brandis Malone Brandis Malone is a second-year master’s student in the dual Russian and Eastern European studies and Library ... March 17, 2023
Slang and the Roma People Content note: This blog post contains a book title which uses a historical term for the Roma people now increasingly ... March 15, 2023
Exhibition Highlights: 400 Years of Shakespeare This spring, the Lilly Library is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Shakespeare First Folio. The First Folio, printed in ... March 10, 2023
Sunday School Slang Roy L. Smith (1887–1963) served as a Methodist minister for 32 years, toiled for eight years as editor of The ... March 8, 2023
Looking at Slang through Steve Allen’s Glasses Madeline Kripke’s phenomenal collection abounds with big dictionaries, old dictionaries, and big old dictionaries, but it also includes some very ... March 1, 2023
A Dictionary for Blind Musicians After opening its tattered brown cover, all I could see, at first, was an apparently blank white book, but then ... February 22, 2023