by Staff | Jul 30, 2020 | Collection Highlight, News, Rare Books
Jean Toomer was a masterful historiographer and writer of black history and culture. His seminal publication, Cane, embodied his devotion to narrating the black experience and to applying a critical eye to past history of oppression and prejudice in order to preserve...
by Staff | Jul 2, 2020 | Collection Highlight, New Collections
Though colonists did not officially condone the enlistment of African Americans in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the service of African Americans was historically pervasive throughout the War, despite multiple orders on behalf of General...
by Staff | Jul 2, 2020 | Collection Highlight, New Collections
Portland, Oregon, boasts a rich and expansive music and cultural scene, home to a myriad of quirky, trendy, and historic music and social venues, and musicians and musical groups. University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives has recently acquired...
by Alexa Goff | Nov 20, 2019 | Collection Highlight, Rare Books
Special Collections and University Archives has recently acquired two works published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular, an artist’s print collective founded in 1937 in Mexico that produces art for political and revolutionary social causes, including anti-militarism,...
by | Nov 9, 2018 | Collection Highlight, New Collections, This Week in History, University History
In recognition of the upcoming 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, we are highlighting a recent acquisition of two short sketched vignettes in watercolor documenting University of Oregon student life during and after World War I. “Over Here: A Striking Scenerio [sic]...
by | Sep 24, 2018 | Collection Highlight, Rare Books
Special Collections and University Arvhives is pleased to announce the acquisition of a collection of works by the German polymath Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682), including Experimentum Chymicum Novum: Quo Artificialis & Instantanea Metallorum Generatio Et...
