Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

07/24/2020

Congratulations to our colleagues Stephen Naron and Gabor Mihaly Toth on the publication of their article on digital humanities work and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. FVAHT is a part of Manuscripts and Archives in the Yale University Library.

In 1979 the Holocaust Survivors Film Project began videotaping Holocaust survivors. Since then, its successor, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, has recorded and preserved...

07/10/2020

Read the latest Manuscripts and Archives Blog post on the "Father of Modern Vaccines," whose personal papers are available to researchers in Manuscripts and Archives at Yale!

John Franklin Enders, a Yale graduate, is known to many as the “Father of Modern Vaccines” due to his integral role in developing both the polio and measles vaccines. Read the full story on Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library page: http://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/

Access the John Franklin Enders collection here: https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4495



Image: John F. Enders on the cover of Time magazine, November 17, 1961. Leonard C. Norkin blog post dated August 4, 2016. https://rb.gy/ixi3mn

06/25/2020

Celebrating the 2020 winners of the Yale University Library's senior essay prizes, one of which is the Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial Prize. Congratulations to all seven 2020 prize recipients! All prize-winning essays are published online through EliScholar.

Despite the disruption of the COVID-19 shutdown in March, the class of 2020 completed a wide range of original research projects using Yale Library collections and resources. Seven students wrote senior essays that were recognized with one of three annual library prizes. The winning essays have been...

06/09/2020

No Manuscripts and Archives or special collections involvement in step 1 of reopening the Yale University Library, but it is a relief to see the start of a return to what we do best, engaging Yale students and faculty and independent researchers with circa 90K linear feet of endlessly engaging archival collections!

Starting today, the library is resuming some onsite scanning & digitization and now offers a book pickup service for general collections from Bass Library and Sterling Memorial Library for faculty, staff and students. Read more about the library's reopening FAQ: https://web.library.yale.edu/covid-19-update-library-reopening-faq

06/04/2020

Black student leaders at Yale in 1970, on Earth Day.

On May 1, 1970, tens of thousands of protesters gathered on the New Haven Green and the campus of Yale University. They came in support of Black Panther

05/14/2020

Yale students, faculty, staff, alumni - make your COVID-19 experiences a part of Yale’s history!

1982: Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies student Chris Kilgore

Where did you study during the pandemic? Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library wants to know.

The library been preserving our history for centuries. It's your turn to contribute now.

Share your photos and story at makehistory.library.yale.edu

05/01/2020

Kudos to the Yale Film Study Center for preserving the original of this student-produced film from 1970, digitizing it, and making it available on Vimeo for the month of May 2020 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the May Day rally in New Haven.

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive is going online! To mark the 50th anniversary of the demonstrations around the New Haven Black Panther trials, be our guests for the preservation premiere of the documentary Mayday (1970), presented as a digital transfer of the Yale-preserved film, along with a o...

05/01/2020

Great post and interviews on the New Haven Black Panther trial, and the May Day rally that happened on the Green and across Yale’s central campus 50 years ago today.

04/29/2020

Happy to share some good news announcing the two winners of the 2020 Manuscripts and Archives Diane Kaplan Memorial Senior Essay Prize! Congratulations to Steven Rome (Grace Hopper College) and Sahaj Sankaran (Silliman College) on their outstanding research and writing of their senior essays.

Yale University Library Research Guides: Manuscripts and Archives (Repository) Senior Essay Prizes: Home

04/29/2020

Exciting news about projects being undertaken by the Yale University Archives to document student experiences, Yale responses, and other first-hand observations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the Yale community.

Thanks to the efforts of the Yale University Archives today, tomorrow’s scholars will enjoy a robust record of today’s unprecedented events and challenges.