Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Current Research
We are always eager to help spread the word about new scholarship from our collections and we frequently post notices about books, articles, and conference presentations that have benefited from research in our reading room or using our online resources.
Students, scholars, and fellows are invited and encouraged to let us know about new work drawn from the Beinecke Library’s collections. Please send a citation, summary, and information about Beinecke collections consulted by following this link: New Scholarship from Beinecke: Submissions.
New Scholarship
January 2, 2025
Below you will find links to research posts written by Yale graduate students in Professor Marisa Bass’s Fall 2024 History of Art graduate seminar “The Mind of... - ## Hex files: ‘Curse’ tablet recalls an ancient mode of score-settling
November 1, 2024
An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes. - ## Picturing John W. Creed: New Haven Abolitionist, Custodian, and Business Owner
July 15, 2024
Business owner, abolitionist, service worker, father, community leader: Few people embody the many strands of 19th century Black history in New Haven quite like John William Creed. Thanks to a recent discovery in the Beinecke archives, we now know what he looked like. - ## Introducing Shining Light on Truth: Early Black Students at Yale
April 16, 2024
Shining Light on Truth: Early Black Students at Yale is a Beinecke effort dedicated to researching, understanding, and uplifting the stories of early Black pathfinders at the university. - ## Beinecke exhibit reflects on Samuel F. B. Morse’s legacy, Yale and slavery (Yale Daily News)
March 8, 2024
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library held a drop-in session with archival materials on key documents included in the book “Yale and Slavery: A History” and specific items related to Samuel F. B. Morse this week. - ## Exhibit highlights slavery and resistance in Yale and New Haven (WSHU Public Radio)
February 19, 2024
Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery opened its doors to the public late last week, showcasing what Michael Morand and Charles Warner, Jr. have curated through accessing mountains of archival material on Black history in New Haven and throughout Yale University. The exhibit complements a new book published the same day, Yale and Slavery: A History ... - ## Langston Hughes's "China" Why the previously unpublished poem is a revelation
January 31, 2024
During the summer of 2019, I was wading through the Langston Hughes papers in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale for a book I am writing on Afro-Asian encounters in the twentieth century. - ## Yale Library Book Talk series announces lineup for spring 2024
January 8, 2024
Throughout the academic calendar, the Yale Library Book Talk series hosts acclaimed authors to discuss newly released books of fiction or nonfiction. The three topics this spring season include hacking in the digital age (and its notorious perpetrators), the history of anarchy in America and how it shapes public life today, and the work of six creative thinkers inspired by loneliness. - ## Reflections from the Beinecke Library by Méabh Ní Choileáin, Graduate Research Fellow
September 29, 2023
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University needs to be seen, whether in person or in picture, for its beauty and marvel to be believed... - ## Teasing apart the meaning of Shakespeare’s First Folio
September 27, 2023
A new exhibit at Sterling Memorial Library explores the changing perceptions — in prestige and value — of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays.