Exhibitions
An Art of Authority: Self-Censorship and the Comics Code 1954-2011
The Comics Code Authority enforced a set of guidelines in a period of censorship and regulation for over fifty years,...
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The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
Alumni Harley Hammerman has made the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections an important center for O’Neill studies.
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Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
Wicked Women explores the connection between whiteness, gender, and violence in women carrying out acts of mass violence and discrimination.
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Wherein I Am: Highlights from the Aaron Coleman Papers
In 2021 the Washington University Libraries acquired the literary papers of Aaron Coleman, a poet and translator who received his...
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Stanley Elkin’s “Pieces of Soap”
In 1990 novelist Stanley Elkin published an essay about his “accumulation” of travel soaps. Published in Art & Antiques magazine,...
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Permanent Exhibitions
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Exhibition The Blaeu Atlas
The Atlas Maior, Joan Blaeu's final and grandest atlas project, was the largest and most expensive book published in the...View Exhibition about The Blaeu Atlas -
Exhibition Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration
Featured Images on the Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration The Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration spans four stories...View Exhibition about Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration -
Exhibition Risa’s Landing
Risa’s Landing is a collaborative study space in the Newman Tower. Seven tables around the perimeter feature images of recreated...View Exhibition about Risa’s Landing -
Exhibition The Sky Room
The Sky Room pays tribute to four outstanding alumni and their research and features a color mosaic “selfie” of the...View Exhibition about The Sky Room -
Exhibition Declaration of Independence
An exhibition of the Southwick Broadside, which was given to Washington University by the Newman Family in 2015.View Exhibition about Declaration of Independence