Current Research

We are always eager to help spread the word about new scholarship from our collections and we frequently post notices about books, articles, and conference presentations that have benefited from research in our reading room or using our online resources.

Students, scholars, and fellows are invited and encouraged to let us know about new work drawn from the Beinecke Library’s collections.  Please send a citation, summary, and information about Beinecke collections consulted by following this link: New Scholarship from Beinecke: Submissions.

New Scholarship

  • New Scholarship: Croswell Bowen

    August 12, 2014

    Croswell Bowen: A Writer’s Life, A Daughter’s Portrait recounts the life of journalist and biographer Croswell Bowen (1905-1971, YC ‘29), whose...

  • New Scholarship: The Map Thief

    June 24, 2014

    ‘The Map Thief’ by Michael Blanding, reviewed in The Boston Globe, June 7 2014, by Michael Washburn Extravagant crimes don’t always require extravagant tools...

  • Living Locally by Erica Van Horn

    June 12, 2014

    Living Locally , by Erica Van Horn; Foreword by Susan Howe. Published June 2014 . More information: Uniformbooks . Living Locally selects entries from a daily...

  • Celebrating Wescott's Journals

    June 4, 2014

    Collection of Glenway Wescott’s Journals Named Best Gay Biography for 2013 “A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, 1956-1984,” a collection of journal entries...

  • New Scholarship: Julie Botnick on Dorothy Porter's Life and Work

    May 23, 2014

    In July 1968, as Howard University’s James M. Nabrit, Jr. stepped down from his role as president amid student protests, Dorothy Porter wrote to friends and colleagues to invite them to her workshop on the topic of “Bibliographic Resources for a Study of the American Negro.”

  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    2014-2015 Research Fellows

    May 6, 2014

    Hearty congratulations to the new class of Beinecke Research Fellows and a special welcome to Rochelle Johnson , Logan Esdale , Jeremy Treglown , W. Scott...