YCAL-JWJ Collection Highlights

The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection is pleased to announce a new digital image guide: Robert Reed, The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, or the Inmate of a Gloomy Prison; an unpublished manuscript, [ca. 1858]
May 2, 2013

Ten fascinating books, manuscripts, collections...related to American Civil Rights Movements.
April 7, 2013

Monday, April 1 at 4pm: a gallery talk on the manuscript of Walden and a stud-section purportedly from Thoreau's cabin.
April 1, 2013

A fictionalized autobiography thought to be the first novel written by an African American woman (c. 1850); now available online.
March 14, 2013

Ten fascinating manuscripts from the Yale Collection of American Literature.
March 1, 2013

Collection highlights exhibited in Multitudes: A Celebration of the Yale Collection of American Literature, 1911 – 2011.
February 24, 2013

Talks, discussions, and readings by curators, scholars, and writers.
February 23, 2013
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