Shelving Library Myths: Sorting Folklore from Fact
Posted April 30, 2025
By Georgia Kerrigan ’27 How do myths catch on? According to University Archivist Matt Richardson, we just can’t resist beguilement. As anyone who has...Category: University Archives
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Lifesaver’s memorial plaque debuts in new spot after years in storage
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...
Garry Marshall exhibit puts the NU in ‘Nanu Nanu’
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...
Devoted donor and alumna Leslie Cameron Devereaux wanted Libraries to be “an extraordinary experience” for students
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...
Digital exhibit recreates the ‘sound world’ of Beethoven’s bassist using library collections
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...
Newly donated scrapbook documents life of 1930s running back
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...
Practicum project revisits “Project Survival” climate activism event
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...
Papers of gay rights pioneer to be archived at Libraries
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...
“That’s Grandma!”: Finding family in the archives
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....