Every four years, held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the American public casts its vote for the office of President of the United States of America. Leading up to this all-important day we are inundated with numerous advertisements by potential candidates in the form of…
In February of 2020, The Browne Popular Culture Library installed the exhibit "Entwined Destinies: Elsie B. Washington, Vivian Stephens, and 40 Years of Black Voices in Romance". This is the digital version of that exhibit.
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Drawn from the many different collections of the BPCL, this exhibit focuses on both positive and negative portrayals of Native Americans in popular culture. Subjects addressed include the casting of White actors in Native roles, the marketing of “savage” Indians to children, the co-opting of Native…
This exhibit scratches the surface of women creating and publishing content for other women in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Godey's Lady's Book to the zine explosion of the 1990s, women have consistently found ways to make their voices heard in a media landscape that frequently devalued their…
Kensington Press was the first major publisher to begin a line of African American romance novels, Arabesque, in 1994. In the more than 20 years since then, the genre has exploded, with African American authors selling millions of books and topping best seller lists around the world. The four women…
This exhibit depicts the past and present culture of the American holiday, Thanksgiving Day.
Cover of a Thanksgiving-themed postcard