Special Collections & University Archives

Exhibits online

Tulip poplar leaves
Photograph by Arthur Mange

Drawing upon the unique materials under their care, the staff of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives organize two exhibits a year in their reading room and work regularly with their colleagues in the general library to prepare other exhibits for display on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. SCUA also coordinates the traveling exhibit on the life and legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Exhibits online
Rhetoric or Research interprets student protests against CIA recruitment at UMass Amherst during the 1980s through a selection of images taken by student photojournalists. By Tom Hohenstein (ETHIR recipient, 2011).	Source, History, Story: Teaching U.S. History in the Archives A digital curriculum for teaching U.S. history using archival resources. An exhibit by Emily Oswald (ETHIR recipient, 2011).
Behold And See As You Pass By An online exhibit on gravestones and mortuary art in Early New England drawn from the Association for Gravestones Studies Collections. By Molly Campbell (ETHIR recipient, 2011)	Uncertain Futures Science fiction readership in the Cold War and beyond. An exhibit by Morgan Hubbard.
Fifteen letters Conrad D. Totman’s letters home from Korea, 1954-1955. An exhibit by Alex McKenzie.	Du Bois: The Activist Life An online exhibit on the life and legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois based on his papers.
Herbals and Insects A selection of rare botanical and entomological books from the SCUA collections.	Apiculture and culture Books on bees and beekeeping. An exhibit by Richard A. Steinmetz.