African American Studies at Beinecke Library

"This Is My Life": The Sonnet and the Emergence of Black Subjectivity Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 2:00 pm Beinecke Library, Room 38

Multitudes: A Celebration of the Yale Collection of American Literature, 1911 – 2011 EXHIBITION CLOSING PARTY Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5:00  

Photographic Memory Workshop – Graduate Student Working Group 2011-2012

Multitudes: A Celebration of the Yale Collection of American Literature, 1911–2011 July 8 through October 1, 2011 Do I contradict myself? Very well then . . . . I contradict myself; I am large . . . . I contain multitudes.

The Amos Beman Scrapbook collection includes news clippings related to and collected by Amos Gerry Beman, a black minister in New Haven, Connecticut. Beman was a national leader during the mid-nineteenth century, a proponent of abolition, suffrage, temperance and educational and moral reform.

Tuesday, April 5 at 4:00, Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), The Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series presents: Kevin Young, the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing, and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, Emory University.