Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
Posted March 8, 2024
By Paul Feller-Simmons ’25 PhD This blog post is adapted from the exhibition Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Manuscripts at Northwestern University, on view...
Posted February 21, 2024
By Julie Calcagno What do sci-fi pulp, countercultural newspapers, and 1960s books on marijuana have in common? They’re enjoyable reads, food for thought and...
Posted January 31, 2024
By Elena Hubert ’25 With a name like “Domenico Dragonetti,” you would figure the world’s first virtuoso bassist would be as well-known as Ludwig...
Posted December 7, 2023
By Jess Ortegon During our work to care for the physical aspects of Northwestern University Libraries’ collections, we sometimes find that objects require a...
Posted December 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This summer, the Libraries sent more than 40 rare items and 14 facsimiles to the Museo Nacional Centro...
Posted November 2, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 The posters, fliers, and ephemera in the Libraries’ Femina Collection overflow with remnants of the fight for gender...
Posted September 21, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 In 1972, the Rolling Stones spent two months playing 48 shows across the United States after a three-year-long...
Posted February 6, 2023
By Laura Berenger The collage artworks by Stjopka (born 1956) present a very detailed world and an imagination that is adventurous, historical, tender, macabre,...
Posted February 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This quarter, the German department is working closely with Northwestern Libraries to bring a new exhibit to campus...