Beinecke Library on YouTube
New video added regularly!
Beinecke Library YouTube Channel
Highlight: What Could Have Been, short documentary about proposal for America’s first HBCU in 1831
More highlights from Beinecke Library YouTube
Mondays at Beinecke Gallery Talks
Creativity in Isolation and After series
Beinecke Illuminated visual podcasts
Windham-Campbell Prizes
The Windham-Campbell Prizes, established in 2013, call attention to literary achievement and provide writers working in English. Prizes are awarded each spring in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The prizes YouTube channel includes video content of the annual festival with readings, lectures, and discussions by prizewinners, as well as the annual Windham-Cambell Lecture on the theme, “Why I Write,” by distinguished authors.
Windham-Campbell Prizes and Festival
Video from the collections on the digital library
The digital library includes a variety of moving images files available for viewing. One particular highlight are the Solomon Sir Jones Films, 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928.
Solomon Sir Jones Films on the digital library
External video about authors and others in Beinecke Library collections
Documentary filmmakers often use Beinecke Library collections for research and many of the people whose papers or archives are stewarded by the library have been the subject of documentaries. The links below give a small, illustrative list; new links will be added from time to time. Note: some online films may require subscriptions or have other access requirements.
Rachel Carson via American Experience on PBS
Related: Rachel Carson Papers
N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear via American Masters on PBS
Robert Redford and N. Scott Momaday on Oral Tradition
Related: N. Scott Momaday Papers
Eugene O’Neill via American Experience on PBS
Related: Eugene O’Neill Papers
In Our Living and Our Dying: Our Town in the 21st Century on YouTube
Related: Thornton Wilder Papers
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum on Vimeo
Related: Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keeffe Archive
Every Little Step on YouTube Movies
Related: Michael Bennett Papers
Stevenson - Lost and Found: The many lives of New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson
Related: James Stevenson Papers