African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.

New Research from the JWJ Collection
July 12, 2012
Article Abstract: Contemporary social history is premised on the idea of writing histories of ordinary people.
Beinecke Fellow Named Poet Laureate
June 7, 2012
Congratulations to 2009 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Fellow Natasha Trethewey, the next Poet Laureate of the United States.
Travel & Tourism
June 4, 2012
The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection includes various materials documenting 20th century African American travel and tourism.
Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 29, 2012
The Negotiation of Authority in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Visual Art and Writing
Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 24, 2012
“Lost in the Zoo: The Art of Charles Sebree”
Lois Mailou Jones Books
May 18, 2012

The Beinecke Library has an outstanding collection of books illustrated by African American artist Lois Mailou Jones. The collection includes the many books...
NAACP Publications and Ephemera
May 10, 2012
The Beinecke has recently acquired an archive of publications, ephemera, and other materials related to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
New Research: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
March 26, 2012
Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself.
Thistlewood Archive
March 1, 2012
The Beinecke Library is happy to announce the recent acquisition of the archive of Thomas Thistlewood, 18th-century British planter in Jamaica.
Exhibition Opening: Remembering Shakespeare
February 7, 2012
Please join us next Wednesday, February 15, at 4:30 pm on the Beinecke Library mezzanine for the opening of the Beinecke’s spring exhibition, “Remembering Shakespeare.”