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Closeup of man with short grey hair and beard and black rim glasses, turning head to right while speaking at microphone. He wears grey jacket and blue and gray plaid shirt open at collar.
July 7, 2023
Brian Meacham, film archivist, spoke about the Yale Film Archive at the British Film Institute film festival in London.
Smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair and wire glasses, gold hoop earrings and blue short-sleeve shirt open at collar stands in courtyard with brick facade behind her and two grey figures in partial view of water fountain at left.
June 26, 2023
Three Kaplan Senior Essay Prizes awarded for essays based on research in special collections.
June 10, 2023
LUX is Yale’s groundbreaking custom search tool for exploring the university’s extensive holdings of artistic, cultural, and scientific objects.
Young woman with long brown hair worn behind ears and down shoulders, wearing blue blouse with small white polka dots. Behind her at right is leaded glass window, stone wall, three thin tree trunks at right and top rail of a wooden bench with "Memory of Freder..." carved in front.
May 31, 2023
Accessing the library’s extensive collection of government materials, Sopie E. Edelstein ’23 wrote her winning essay about mental health care for the elderly in early 20th-century America.
1914 sepia-tone photo showing crowds of people with suitcases, in a dusty setting, some seated some standing, with two train cars in the near distance
May 26, 2023
Faculty awards prizes to three Yale College seniors and a doctoral candidate for studies of American and Western American history and culture.
Logo of "Yale Daily News" in shaded Gothic script, at center below the word "Daily" is a wound medallion with two balls, a baseball bat, and two oars to the left and a lit lantern to the right. Text above  reads "The oldest college daily, founded 1878"
May 24, 2023
The library’s historical archive of the nation’s oldest continuously published daily paper now contains nearly 24,000 back issues.
Stage set with arabic script projected in white on black background. Man in Arabic dress stands with arms outstretched in front of animated image of a blue and yellow tree. Eleven people in long garments sit at his feet, six to his right and five to his left.
May 15, 2023
Omar Ibn Said, author of the only known surviving Arabic-language slave narrative written in the United States—whose portrait and correspondence are now on view at the Beinecke—is the subject of a new American opera.