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Exhibition: Translating the Canon: Building Special Collections in the 21st Century, Main Gallery, May 21 to September 1, 2012
Online Collection: At War and At Home: Monroe County Timeline 1855-1875—A Digital Collection of Our County's Civil War History
News: Copies still available: Gilding the Lilly, A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library
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The Incredible Shrinking Man Meets The Exorcist
While a great faceoff for a Midnite Movie feature, the above represents two titles from the Lilly Library’s sizeable and eclectic science fiction and horror film script collection. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), scripted by Richard Matheson from his 1956 novel, The Shrinking Man, is an acknowledged sci fi classic while The Exorcist (1973) is [...]
History, Memory and Campus Protest during the Long 1960s
Craig Simpson, Lilly Library manuscripts archivist, and his colleague Gregory Wilson, University of Akron, History Department, discussed “Above the Shots: The Kent State Shootings and the Politics of Truth, Trauma and Reconciliation” at this year’s Oral History Association Annual Conference recently held in Denver. Craig and Gregory joined a panel of scholars who described how [...]
