A Negro at the North Pole by Matthew A. Henson
In A Negro at the North Pole (1912), African American explorer Matthew A. Henson recounts his experiences as the personal assistant of Rear Admiral Robert …
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In A Negro at the North Pole (1912), African American explorer Matthew A. Henson recounts his experiences as the personal assistant of Rear Admiral Robert …
SLU’s Rare Books Division boasts four volumes of the poems and stories for which famed writer, activist, and native Missourian Langston Hughes is best known. …
Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, published by John Heywood of Manchester in 1773, is a collection of caricatures and poems by “Tom Bobbin” – …
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are …
Thanksgiving approaches, and my thoughts have turned to one of my favorite books in SLU’s collection: The Home Cookbook: Compiled from Recipes Contributed by Ladies …
The fractured state of fifteenth-century English is colorfully expressed by printer William Caxton in the preface to his 1490 translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. To illustrate the effects of …
One of my regular tasks here at SLU is ownership marking our books for security. This entails applying our newly designed “Saint Louis University Libraries” …
Five years ago, I was at the tail end of a semester-long study abroad experience in London that had brought me everywhere from standing street-side …
Men have had their say. It is but fitting now that a woman should have hers, especially as the woman who assumes to speak does …
On Wednesday, April 6th, the Rare Books reading room underwent its second transformation of the semester from quiet research space to improvised dominotier studio, this …