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Society & Culture
March 11, 2021 | 03:13 pm

History project tells a more complete story of Frances Seward

Three women in the history PhD program have completed a video project showing the wife of Lincoln’s secretary of state as more influential than typically depicted.

topics: Department of History, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences, Seward Family Archive,
In Photos
October 22, 2019 | 03:58 pm

Sunset rainbow

A rainbow appears over Eastman Quadrangle and Rush Rhees Library after an October rainstorm, and was widely photographed across campus and the city. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster)

topics: River Campus Libraries,
The Arts
May 30, 2019 | 10:29 am

‘The great democratic voice’

May 31 is the 200th anniversary of poet Walt Whitman’s birth, and Rochester has a few ties of its own to the poet who contained multitudes.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post, River Campus Libraries,
Society & Culture
May 14, 2019 | 12:11 pm

University to receive Louise Slaughter Congressional collection

The family of Louise and Bob Slaughter is donating the late congresswoman’s official papers to the University of Rochester. River Campus Libraries will house, archive, and make available the Louise M. Slaughter Congressional Collection in the coming years.

topics: announcements, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post-side, New York congressional delegation, River Campus Libraries,
The Arts
May 3, 2019 | 02:01 pm

Victoria depicted, Victoria defined

A new exhibit in Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation chronicles the often radical difference between the real and figurative queen through illustrations, etchings, letters, photographs, and other ephemera.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries,
Voices & Opinion
April 12, 2019 | 09:27 am

What historical artifacts like the ‘Lincoln bullet’ mean

Associate Professor of History Larry Hudson, a specialist in 19th-century African-American history whose scholarly interests include the Civil War, answers questions about the significance and meaning of the bullet that killed President Abraham Lincoln.

topics: Department of History, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
April 2, 2019 | 04:41 pm

Has the Renaissance warped our view of the Middle Ages?

The picture of the Middle Ages as “awful, smelly, stinky, [and] dangerous” is not accurate, says medievalist and University of Pennsylvania professor David Wallace, this year’s Ferrari Humanities Symposia visiting scholar.

topics: Department of English, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, events, featured-post-side, Ferrari Humanities Symposia, Memorial Art Gallery, River Campus Libraries,
In Photos
March 28, 2019 | 03:43 pm

Celebrating 60 years of ‘Seward’s Folly’

The Alaskan flag, with its simple Big Dipper and North star design, was the winning entry submitted by a 13-year-old Aleut boy, John Bell Benson, for a competition by the Alaska Department of the American Legion. Chosen in 1927, this particular example is now part of the University’s William Henry Seward Papers.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries,