November 15, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA Twain treasure hunt Alan Gribben has spent almost 50 years hunting down Mark Twain’s formidable personal library, which housed more than 3,000 titles. In the first volume of his findings, Mark Twain’s Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading (NewSouth Books, 2019), Gribben presents the discoveries of his life’s work, uncovering… read more
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, Meet the StaffA day in my life as a preservation and conservation intern As an English student at Florida A&M University, I was attracted to this internship because it granted me an opportunity to really explore an archival library.
November 14, 2018, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsPowerful currents: John Wilson’s Down by the Riverside prints The dark male figure, head bent to the driving rain indicated by the dense lines that cover the page, lifts a slight woman into a simple rowboat. The boat’s bow is pointed through the floodwaters toward higher ground, its port side steadied by a second stooped male.
