by Carolina Jones Witnessing a busy day in an archive’s reading room is a marvelous experience. There is a quiet in the air, but there is also the buzzing static of researchers hard at work, which …

by Makinsey Hamblin, Eleanor Vander Laan, and Grace Lewis June is Pride Month, so as a team of University Archives student assistants, we decided to explore how UMD has celebrated queer life over t…

by Sophia Hwangbo and Ella Sprague It’s May, which means that it’s the start of Labor History Month in the state of Maryland. Labor History Month is celebrated in the month of May to honor Ma…

by Ella Sprague Each month, the Special Collection and University Archives (SCUA) team highlights a new collection of items in the current gallery exhibit, Unboxing Innovation in Special Collection…

by Melanie Pincus As a zillenial, I’m familiar with a hands-off approach to communications regulation. The internet era has gone without much federal action to protect young social media users or t…

by Rosemarie Fettig At long last, we’ve reached the conclusion of our epic saga detailing the process of moving and making accessible the Labor collections’ audiovisual materials. Thank you to ever…

by Anna Christine Jones The Alliance for Retired Americans collection has recently been processed by Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) personnel! Founded in 2001 by the AFL-CIO, th…

by Melanie Pincus “As you can imagine, the requests from people who want to meet the Queen are voluminous,” wrote John Foster Dulles, then secretary of state, to Helen Sioussat, a CBS executi…

by Belane Ayelework and Willow Whitaker  The Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) team has been hard at work for the past nine months to plan, create, and install our  new e…

by Divya Vashisht At the end of April, the Hornbake Library Letterpress Printing Studio opened its doors to Students Archivists at Maryland (SAM) and students from UMD INFO College to set type, ink…

by Divya Vashisht and Willow Whitaker Time sure does fly by! It’s been almost a year since Homegrown: An Introduction to the Environmental Justice Movement opened to the public last September in th…

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