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Smiling woman with long wavy brown. hair and large white cat's-eye glasses, wearing a green, black and yellow jacket over a white blouse. She stands next to paned windows that shine light on her face.
April 27, 2023
On Wed., May 3, Ambre Dromgoole (MAR ’17) will tell the story of Roxie Moore, one of the influential Black female musicians featured in Dromgoole’s PhD dissertation.
Black-and-white composite images showing four children, two men, and one woman in early twentieth-century style coats and clothing
April 25, 2023
As a member of a new international working group, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies will help gather the United Kingdom’s testimony collections.
7 women and 1 man pose for the camera in front of decorative wood moulding in Sterling Library Nave.
April 14, 2023
The First Ladies of Gospel add their voices to the Oral History of American Music Collection and the interdisciplinary program Music and the Black Church.
Two smiling young boys giving two thumbs up. Both have dark hair and dark jackets.
April 11, 2023
“I signed up to be a judge for Connecticut History Day because I saw it as a way to ‘give back’ to the New Haven community,” says librarian Roberta Dougherty.
Dark blue round logo on blue and white ground that reads "Library Accessibility Alliance" in outer circle. At center is a graphic that shows diagram of figure in blue and white.
April 5, 2023
Yale Library staff members serve an active role in the Library Accessibility Alliance, which works to ensure equal access to all library users.
Hand-written sheet music titled "Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing"; at right a small metal sculpture of a harp made up of standing figures with crouching boy at front
March 28, 2023
Melissa Barton, curator at Beinecke Library, discusses the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection with Ray Hardman of Connecticut Public Radio.
Four protesters, two carrying large placards. One reads "Why no Gypsy representations, Racism betrays idea of Holocaust Memorial." Two are dressed in prisoner garb
March 14, 2023
An April symposium at Sterling will discuss the little-known shared experiences of Jews and Roma during World War II and the aftermath of the era into the present day.