Mary Leslie Newton, born in 1874 and raised in Xenia, Ohio, was a prolific writer throughout her life. This exhibit focuses on one particular genre and period: letters written during her teenage years. As Jane Greer observes inGirls and Literacy in America, scholars in rhetoric and writing have…

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. —James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers” (1963)

Black protest and black representation have always existed in a complex relationship with whiteness and racism. Within that…

This exhibit on the "Francophone Mediterranean" will introduce you to several facets of the French-speaking, Western part of the Mediterranean world, connecting France and the Maghreb, in particular, Algeria. The first "wing" of this virtual museum represents Mediterranean and southern French…

Soyez les bienvenus dans notre galérie virtuelle faisant affiche des diverses possibilités de s'engager, s'amuser et s'instruire dans le Midi de la France. Ce site sert de portail numérique à la ville de Montpellier et ses alentours. (A brief explanation in English can be found below.) Nous avons…

The 1960s was a complex time period, with its movements and culture extending beyond the end of the decade. The pages that follow provide an exploration into some of the social issues that dominated the time period, such as racism, the Vietnam War, and police brutality, as well as the feminist, drug…