Rare Book & Manuscript Library Events

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  • “We are each other’s harvest” : Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon
    Recurring

    All Day    9/26/2024 - 5/23/2025
    Main Library Room 346

    RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.

  • The Eliot Bible: Encountering Colonial History in Illinois

    3:00 - 5:00 pm    11/7/2024
    Main Library Room 346

    Professor Bob Morrissey (Department of History) joins us to discuss the John Eliot Bible, published in 1664, and how this unusual text can be used to examine American origin stories, as well as histories of historical interpretation and practice in our land-grant institution. Come take a look at RBML’s copy of this exceedingly rare book!