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We’re delighted to welcome you back to campus and to invite you to consult the holdings of Special Collections in our reading […]
The Department of Special Collections will continue Library By Appointment for its reading room with appointments available Monday-Friday, 1-4 PM, beginning this, […]
Special Collections is part of the campus Library By Appointment system, and we welcome your visit to consult our holdings in the […]
We welcome you to our new exhibit, Plants Plantations Labor Trade: An Exhibit of Holdings of the UW-Madison Libraries and Wisconsin Historical Society […]
Before memories of Thanksgiving 2019 fade away, we want to take the opportunity to highlight the important role of American author and […]
In observance of International Women’s Day, we call your attention to works on natural history by women authors included within our Cairns […]
Among the strengths of the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers are titles about women’s roles in World War I. In this, […]
Our current exhibit, “The Sixties: Remembering Who Was T/here,” pays tribute to, among other, eleven influential novels of the era. Though the […]
Images from our holdings of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin figure in the exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art curated by […]
Although the campus is buzzing with the excitement of football — first home game tonight — and the beginning of classes next […]
Like other special collections libraries prompted by tomorrow’s solar eclipse to post images from their holdings, we weigh in with examples from, […]
Splashes of spring green on the cover, frontispiece, and title page of the novel April’s sowing seem apt after a balmy April […]