The Washington University Libraries’ Film & Media Archive has successfully completed the preservation of Won by a Sweet, a rare silent 16mm promotional film from 1929. The film was produced by R.P. Young Productions for the National Confectioners’ Association (NCA). The project was completed ...
A new exhibit, ‘Bride of the Desert: An Exploration of Palmyra,’ will open on Friday, March 2, at The Sheldon (3648 Washington Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63108). As a thriving caravan city of the Roman frontier during the 1st – 3rd centuries CE, Palmyra contained an array of temples, ...
A new exhibit, ‘Transformative Visions: Washington University’s East End, Then and Now,’ will open at the Garen Gallery at the Kemper Art Museum on Friday, February 2. The exhibit includes architectural drawings, photographs, and other material from University Archives that examine th...
One complete year of Student Life, the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis, is now available through Open Scholarship at openscholarship.wustl.edu/studentlife. The 85 issues from 2006-07 are online with plans to eventually include the full run of the newspaper, which dates...
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has awarded a grant of $34,433 to WU Libraries to fund the project “Liberating the Spoken Word: Poetry Readings and Literary Performances in St. Louis, 1969-2005.” The grant will allow the Libraries to digitize and create metadat...
Determining the boundaries of poetry, what it is and isn’t, what counts as ‘poetry’ and what doesn’t, is a thorny endeavor even – perhaps especially – for experienced poets. W.B. Yeats offered this standard: “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with our...
Born in 1937 to a cellist and harpist, poet and musician David Meltzer was perhaps destined to a life informed and enchanted by sound. As a child, he performed on the radio and on TV with The Horn and Hardart Children’s Hour. This strong musical heritage was only the beginning of Meltzer’s robust...
February marks the original release date of Federman’s third novel, Take It or Leave It. To celebrate this, we offer a peek into some of the materials related to the book in the Raymond Federman Papers. Published in 1976 by Fiction Collective, Take It Or Leave It exemplifies Federman’s boldly inn...
The histories of African-American students at WU and at many other predominantly white universities in the United States frequently begin in the era of student activism, the late 1960s. With his recent project, “Telling Their Stories: The First Class of African-American Undergraduate Students Adm...
The Gaylord Music Library’s sheet music collection includes a wealth of compositions related to St. Louis’ 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (also known as the St. Louis World Fair). The sounds of the era came alive on Friday, November 11, 2016, at WU’s 560 Music Center, when WU music students ...
