DrewU Special Collections

08/11/2025

Want to learn more about late 19th century culture since you’ve finished the season finale of The Gilded Age? We’ve digitized over 600 pamphlets from our 19th century pamphlet collection.

You can learn about everything from Women’s Rights, railroads, marriage and divorce, social issues, and more! The link to Jstor is in our bio.

Happy reading!

08/05/2025

We love the images in this edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The one with the relaxing headless horseman is pretty wonderful.

08/04/2025

Summer is a great time for reflection. While we are working on some new exhibit spaces for you, we are thinking back to some of our favorite exhibits of more recent years.

‘If Books could Kill’ may be our favorite. What about you?

07/30/2025

07/28/2025

A new feature in our lobby. Miniature Special Collections has thus far miniaturized our krater, our Nuremberg Chronicle, and two Lord Byron statues. What should we try next?

07/22/2025

More new exhibits in the Main Library! Thanks to our Special Collections student employees for their assistance!

We hope these exhibits inspire some summer reading!

07/15/2025

Are you watching ? Do you want to learn more about the Temperance movement? Follow the link in our bio to our digitized 19th century pamphlet collection and learn all about it!

06/27/2025

Help us transcribe this manuscript by using

We have some exciting digital humanities plans for this manuscript, but we need to know all the details first! Make a free account, and let’s us discover more about this orderly book from the Revolutionary War.

Link in bio

06/18/2025

In observance of Juneteenth, Special Collections will be closed tomorrow.

06/05/2025

Drawing in a psalter. We LOVE finding little doodles!

05/30/2025

Happy Friday!

What are you reading this weekend?