Northwestern University Archives
Posted December 2, 2024
By Georgia Kerrigan ’27 After 5 years of storage in University Archives, a plaque memorializing 19th-century student Edward Spencer now hangs on the north...
Posted November 8, 2024
By Georgia Kerrigan ’27 Step into University Libraries between now the end of the quarter and you’ll find yourself immersed in decades of entertainment...
Posted October 4, 2024
As a lifelong supporter of Northwestern Athletics and Northwestern Libraries, Leslie Cameron Devereaux found the perfect opportunity to combine her interests in 2015, when...
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 October 20, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Clarence Hinton ’38 was among the earliest students of color to play football for Northwestern. So, imagine his...
Posted June 7, 2023
By Elena Hubert ’25 From dusk to dawn, 10,000 people crowded the halls, classrooms and auditoriums of the Technological Institute with the world on...
Posted June 6, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Steve Pieters ’74 has stood under many spotlights in his lifetime—on stage, at the altar, on TV—and has...
Posted May 26, 2023
Archivists preserve information for the future for many reasons—some of them personal. This story appeared originally in the print edition of Footnotes, Fall 2010....
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...