Modern Books and Manuscripts

The collection of Modern Books and Manuscripts covers a wide range of subjects with strengthsin literature written in English outside the United States; American children's literature; the printing arts; LGBTQ writing; human sexuality and gender studies; playing cards;the history of hunting and fishing;and the history of finance.

  • SUPERSTUDIO's Radical Architecture

    February 4, 2013

    Nowhere was the postwar avant-garde more radical than in architecture. In order to shake off the “hegemonic grip” of academic classicism—and therefore...

  • Dutch PUNK!

    November 22, 2012

    In cities around the world the late 1970s/early 1980s marked high unemployment, housing shortages, and general political discontent. Coming off the...

  • Paris - May 1968

    November 14, 2012

    The student revolts of 1968 in Paris have assumed an iconic status in modern history. With a long tradition of popular uprising and revolution, the French...

  • Richard Neville

    November 7, 2012

    Beinecke has acquired the huge and hugely irreverent archive of Richard Neville, Australian publisher, writer, and counter-culturalist. Most well-known for co-...

  • Fascist Spectacle

    September 7, 2012

    Interesting events–both real and imagined–you may not have known about Fascist Rome. Mussolini famously had a flair for the dramatic. As the leader...

  • A-I-Z

    July 18, 2012

    Arbeiters-Illustrierte Zeitung, or The Workers’ Illustrated Newspaper, was an Anti-Fascist, Communist newspaper between 1924 and 1933 in Berlin, then later...

  • Taptoe Gallery

    July 12, 2012

    Flier for very first show at Taptoe, December 22, 1955 Beinecke has recently acquired a near complete collection of posters, catalogues, and ephemera related...

  • Chopin, part 3: The Milles Pensées

    June 2, 2012

    Chopin’s own “Borealis” in coffee stain Along with voluminous correspondence, various writings, audiovisual material, and original artworks, Chopin...

  • The Festival at Fort Boyard

    May 25, 2012

    Another gem in the Chopin library is a tiny brochure for an imagined collaborative art fair in the late 1960s, Festival de Fort Boyard . Don’t let the...