Margaret Sanger and Womens’ Rights Movements
The Library has acquired the Margaret Sanger Papers online as part of the History Vault collection of primary source material. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) worked to ensure that women had the knowledge...
View ArticleFBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972
Throughout most of the 20th century, the FBI produced a uniquely important record of the concerns, biases and public and surreptitious activities of the federal government’s principal law enforcement...
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Penn Libraries Acquires Archive of Renowned Author and Artist Ashley Bryan
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries announces the acquisition of the archive of renowned artist Ashley Bryan, an internationally recognized children’s book author and illustrator, poet, and...
View ArticleHistorical African American Newspapers
The Libraries have added two African American newspapers to our collection on the Proquest Black Newspapers platform. The Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) is the oldest and largest black newspaper in...
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Q&A with Juan Castrillón, Ethnomusicology Student and Neyzen
The ney flute’s airy, organic melodies are a characteristic element of Turkish classical music, though the melodies don’t come easily. This end-blown woodwind instrument, crafted from a single reed,...
View ArticleResearch Tea: Megan C. Kassabaum
On December 3, Megan C. Kassabaum will present at the Libraries’ final Research Tea of the semester. An assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Kassabaum also serves as Penn Museum’s...
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Gifts from Arnold and Deanne Kaplan, Totaling $12 Million, Enrich Judaic...
Collections of More Than 11,000 Items Reveal Four Centuries of American Jewish History The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has received a series of gifts from Arnold and Deanne Kaplan, including...
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Student Spotlight: Jiaqi Song
Jiaqi Song was born on one continent (Asia, in Beijing), grew up on another (Europe, in Rome), and now attends college on a third (North America, in Philadelphia). Fittingly enough, he’s a second-year...
View ArticleRestricted Access to Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Fisher Fine Arts...
The restricted access policy for the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and the Fisher Fine Arts Library will be in effect during the reading period and final exams, December 10 – 19, 2019. Access to...
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Projectr EDU & Docuseek: Streaming Global Cinema and Documentary Film
The films Ascension (2021), The True Cost (2015), Last Men in Aleppo (2018), and Hot Coffee (2011) are among the titles now available to stream. The Penn Libraries now offers access to two new...
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