Greene has often been a topic of discussion on the Burns Library blog, but in honor of Hispanic Heritage month, which is celebrated September 15th- October 15th, I would like to draw attention to some of the Hispanic and Latin American authors he had correspondence with.
Tales from far-off cultures and lands have always captivated the human imagination. From Marco Polo to Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, both true, exaggerated, and fictionalized accounts of global adventures have had a lasting appeal for the reading public.
In late August 2024, Maggie Erwin joined the Burns Library staff as the 2024-2025 Outreach and Access Assistant. Maggie is a full-time Master’s student at the Simmons College School of Library Science, where she specializes in rare books and special collections librarianship.
When DC Comics launched the anthology series Solo in 2004, it represented a daring and refreshing experiment in comic book storytelling. Each issue of the twelve-issue series was dedicated to a single artist, granting them near-complete creative freedom to explore stories, characters, and styles.
Beginning last fall, Burns Library hosted a new instruction initiative for first-year writing classes. Collaborating with the First-Year Writing seminar program (FWS) and O’Neill librarians, the Burns FWS Pilot Program welcomed first-year undergraduate students to Burns Library and encouraged hands-on engagement with rare books and archives.
In Spring 2024, students from Professor Pheme Perkins’ Perspectives class visited the Burns Library to explore some of the historical materials living in our collections. Some students wrote a rhetorical analysis of an examined item. We’re excited to share one of those analyses by Michael Tran ‘27 on the Burns Library blog!
The city of Bath, England, is aptly named for the Roman Baths, constructed about 70 AD. By the fifth century, however, the Roman reign over England was drawing to a close and Bath’s infrastructure largely fell into obscurity. The country town remained quiet and quaint throughout medieval and early-modern times, but by the year 1700, a significant change was on the precipice.