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Photo gallery: Hanke Gallery opens new exhibition "Empire and Resistance"

February 28, 2023

Visitors gathered for the opening of the new Hanke Gallery’s third exhibition, Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America .

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Student curator Nancy Escalante: Finding community in the archives

February 16, 2023

Nancy Escalante—PhD student in American Studies, whose exhibit Empire and Resistance is in the Hanke Gallery—found her passion and a path to her life’s work in the archives.

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Joy Harjo wins Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry

February 14, 2023

Joy Harjo is the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, established in 1949 and awarded biennally by Yale University Library.

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Library invites suggestions for new titles for its Reading Resilience Project

February 11, 2023

Submit your recommendations—in person at Bass or online—to help build Yale Library’s growing collection of books by and about people of color.

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Fortunoff Video Archive featured in "End of Testimony?," a new exhibit in Vienna

February 1, 2023

Recordings and objects from the collection of Yale Library’s Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust Testimonies are on display in an international exhibit in Vienna.