Category: American literature

• In the Spirit of Thanksgiving: Sarah Josepha Hale

  Posted on Nov 29th

  Before memories of Thanksgiving 2019 fade away, we want to take the opportunity to highlight the important role of American author and […]

• Authors’ Portraits, Sixties Style

  Posted on Jun 30th

  Our current exhibit, “The Sixties: Remembering Who Was T/here,” pays tribute to, among other, eleven influential novels of the era. Though the […]

• “A Boiling, Surging, Roaring Ocean of Fire!”

  Posted on May 20th

  In light of recent news re ports and striking video of an eruption from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, we revisit here […]

• Darkness at Noon (More or Less)

  Posted on Aug 20th

  Like other special collections libraries prompted by tomorrow’s solar eclipse to post images from their holdings, we weigh in with examples from, […]

• “Walden” on July 12, 2017: Henry David Thoreau’s 200th Birthday

  Posted on Jul 12th

  The UW-Madison Libraries recently acquired a true first edition of Thoreau’s Walden, Or Life in the Woods published in 1854 by the […]

• To Celebrate Thoreau’s 200th Birthday

  Posted on Jul 12th

  To celebrate Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday, we offer a preview of a new acquisition, the first edition of Walden, or, Life in […]