Applications Open for the 2025 Student Public Historian Internship
The Julian Edison Department of Special Collections at WashU Libraries invites applications from undergraduate students at Washington University in St....
Category: University Archives
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Libraries Complete Digitization of 1963 Campus Film
WashU Libraries have completed the preservation and digitization of the short film Once Upon a Hill…There was a School! (1963) in University... -
Announcing the Jack A. Kirkland Papers
The Jack A. Kirkland Papers consist primarily of his publications and writings on the American Black family and social and... -
Announcing the Student Public Historian Internship
The Washington University Libraries Julian Edison Department of Special Collections invites applications from WashU undergraduate and graduate students for its... -
University Libraries Acquire the Kenneth Cooper Papers
The Washington University Libraries recently acquired the Kenneth J. Cooper Papers, an archival collection of materials related to the life... -
Libraries Win Grant to Preserve 1963 Film Shot on Campus
The National Film Preservation Foundation recently awarded the Washington University Libraries a 2023 Basic Preservation Grant. The $3,513 grant will... -
Announcing the Joseph D. Murphy Papers
The Joseph D. Murphy Papers, now available for research in University Archives, show the work of local architect Joseph D.... -
Digitally Archiving the Pandemic
The COVID-19 experience at Washington University was a watershed event that generated a trove of digital and physical materials. These... -
World War II Letters Give a Personal Glimpse of History
The gift of the Walter M. Goldschmidt Papers to the University Archives adds a new dimension to World War II... -
Nina Seavey on My Fugitive and Working with Archives
Nina Gilden Seavey is an award-winning documentarian and podcaster and Research Professor of History and Media and Public Affairs at... -
Archiving the COVID-19 Experience at Washington University
University Archives is comprised of more than 300 unique collections that chronicle the history of Washington University from 1853 to... -
“Worst Among Housekeepers:” Perspectives on St. Louis and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
In the spring of 2020, as Covid-19 reached pandemic levels, a chart from a modern study of the 1918 influenza...