Exhibits at the Brown Library
Every year the Brown University Library displays a number of exhibits that showcase its vast collection of materials. Below is a listing of upcoming, current, past, and online exhibits.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration
September 2023 – July 2024
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Contextualizing Taíno Collections
May 4, 2023- May 3, 2024
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Caricature and Character: The Visuals of Race in the Lincoln Archive
Student Curated Online Exhibition
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Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19
Student Curated Online Exhibition
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"A Blind Horror Beyond All Rational Proportion": The Racial Imaginaries of H.P. Lovecraft
Student Curated Online Exhibition
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The Mazansky British Sword Collection (temporarily unavailable)
Permanent Installation
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Annmary Brown Paintings (temporarily unavailable)
Permanent Installation
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Ordinary Circumstances, Extraordinary Conflict
May 11 - August 16, 2023
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Akan Gold Weights: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Collection
May 26, 2022 - March 15, 2023
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Artistic Impressions of Brown University
May 26 -December 15, 2022
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Intercalary Event 2020
January 21 - December 17, 2021
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Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection
March 3, 2020 - Dec 15, 2021
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Early American & English Bookplates 18th-20th C
February 6 - March 31, 2020
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Collecting with Distinction: Faculty Insights into Recent Acquisitions
November 22, 2019 - February 28, 2020
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Paul Revere’s Buried with Him by Baptism, c.1770s
December 5 , 2019 - January 31, 2020
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Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics
December 13, 2018 - December 31, 2019
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Nineteenth-Century Architecture Course Models
September 16 – December 8, 2019
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Fort Thunder & Lightning Bolt: Old Mill/New Music
April 29 - November 28, 2019
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Thanksgiving-Day, November 24, 1864, United We Stand
November 1 -30, 2019
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Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries
May 21-October 31, 2019
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The Last Will of Walt Whitman
October 4 - 31, 2019
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The Malana Krongelb Zine Collection, 1974-2018
September 9-30, 2019
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The Peterloo Massacre: A Bicentennial Remembrance
August 1 - September 9, 2019
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American Revolutionary War Prints
July 1 -31, 2019
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Street in Verville-Sur-Mer, June 1944
June 4 - 30, 2019
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Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God ("Eloit Indian Bible")
April 15 - May 20, 2019
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Works from A Global History of Art & Architecture
December 20, 2018 - May 13, 2019
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Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat
January 10 - April 30, 2019
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Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar
February 12 - April 12, 2019
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Folklore Music Map of the United States
January 30 - March 22, 2019
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Music Publishers Association (MPA) Paul Revere Award exhibit
December 1, 2018 - January 25, 2019
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Prayer (1934) by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents
November 6 - December 19, 2018
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Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón
November 7 - December 14, 2018
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From Gospel Hymns to "Mississippi Goddam"
May 1 - December 12, 2018
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The Brown Bear: A History
May 23, 2017 - December 11, 2018
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Mail carried by Murier, an enslaved person
October 2 - November 5, 2018
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The Poetry of Science: Dante’s Comedy and the Crafting of a Cosmos
July 3 - October 23, 2018
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Chew on This! Early Dental History & Library Collections
September 5 - 30, 2018
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Victory Won Pro-Life Bumper Stickers
August 1 - 31, 2018
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Japanese Ceremonial and Other Vehicles, 1890
July 9 - 31, 2018
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Painting with Plaster: 3D Printing
May 1 - July 15, 2018
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Stamps of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
June 1 - July 9, 2018
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Haggadah: Telling and Retelling the Story of Jewish Liberation
March 5 - June 15, 2018
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Selections from the Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection
May 1 - 31, 2018
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Discover.ed/Explor.ed/ Inspir.ed
April 16 - May 28, 2018
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Black Panther Comics
April 3 - 30, 2018
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Works from Modern Architecture
December 20, 2017 - April 6, 2018
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Familiar Wild Flowers
March 5 - 31, 2018
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Greek Life–A Brief History of Phi Beta Kappa at Brown
February 6 - March 31, 2018
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Lincoln Recordó en America Latina
February 6 - 28, 2018
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Ever True: A History of the Brown Band
October 12 - February 15, 2018
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Annual Address of the Carriers & Newsmen of the N.Y. Herald, 1851
January 5 - February 5, 2018
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Lovecraft on the Road & Caitlin R. Kiernan Papers
August 16 - January 25, 2018
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San Francisco General Hospital Pillowcase: Scott O'Hara Papers
December 1 - 20, 2017
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Abbott “Tom” Gleason – History Professor and Artist: A Retrospective
October 11 - December 31, 2017
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Dancy Box by Caitlín R. Kiernan & Kathryn A. Pollnac
November 3 - 30, 2017
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Victorious Secret by Angela Lorenz
August 31 - November 20, 2017
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Scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898
October 5 - 31, 2017
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Hurra! Ein Kriegsbilderbuch…by Herbert Rikli
September 1 - 30, 2017
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WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands
February 19 - August 18, 2017
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Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues
March 21 – June 2, 2017
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Schwedischen Fewerwerks. Anno 1650
July 1 -31, 2017
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Mobile Verse: Bus and Subway Poetry from the Harris Broadside Collection
June 26-August 3, 2017
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Audubon Bird Cards: Summer Birds of Eastern North America
June 1 -30, 2017
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La conquista dell'Abissinia/ The conquest of Abyssinia
May 1 -31, 2017
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The Vietnam War : Our Veterans' Stories
May 28 2016 – May 11, 2017
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Works from Architectures of Islam & Architectures and Urbanism of Africa
January 6 - May 9, 2017
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John Bull for General Congress
April 3 - 30, 2017
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An Alleged Murder: Court Documents from the State vs. Frances Leach, 1833
March 15 - April 2, 2017
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A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II
September 19 – March 3, 2017
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Stephen Mopope Paintings
October 14 – February 24, 2017
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Tricks and Illusions: Selections from the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana
October 24 – December 23, 2016
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Works from Contemporary Architecture: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann
May 16, 2016 - September 10, 2016
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Alan Boegehold Illustrated
May 18, 2016 – August 31, 2016
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A History of the Brown University Orchestra
April 22, 2016 - December 23, 2016
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Wilmeth Lecture Exhibition
March 14, 2016 – May 27, 2016
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Tripping the Light Fantastic: Experimental Optics in the Victorian Era
March 29, 2016 - May 27, 2016
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Cardboard Revolution: Cartoneras, Literacy, and Sustainable Publishing in Brazil
March 30, 2016 - May 2, 2016
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Thousands of Little Colored Windows: Brown University's Stamp Collections
February 10, 2016 – May 13, 2016
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Modern Architectural Models
January 25, 2016 – April 4, 2016
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Vestiges of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
January 2016 – March 2016
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Are Les Bons Temps Still Rolling? New Orleans Music Culture 10 Years Later
Oct. 1, 2015 – March 2016
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Poetry from the Age of Mass Incarceration
October 2015-January 4, 2016
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Public Humanities
December 2015-January 23, 2016
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Influence of Anxiety: Lovecraft, Bloch, Barlow, et al.
August 19, 2015-January 8, 2016
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Christmas Seals
November 24, 2015-January 6, 2016
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Joukowsky Vessels
October 2015-December 15, 2015
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Huck Finn Exhibit
October 16 2015-December 18, 2016
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19th Century Arch Models
May 15, 2015-December 1, 2015
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US Comedians on Stamps
September 10-October 31, 2015
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The War in the Pacific Travels to Slovakia
June 3, 2015-September 15, 2015
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The Unicorn Found
March 2, 2015-July 31, 2015
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Famous Works of Art on Stamps
May 28-July 31, 2015
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Waterloo 1815: A Bicentennial Exhibition
February 16, 2015-June 25, 2015
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Garland of Flowers
April 9-June 15, 2015
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Exhibit Celebrating the Rock's 50th
September 2, 2014-May 30, 2015
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Lincoln Covers and Stamps
March 12, 2015-May 27, 2015
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In Flanders Fields
February 10, 2015–May 15, 2015
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Art of the Book
February 27-April 27, 2015
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The Battle of New Orleans
January 20-March 31, 2015
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Pop-Up Culture
October 2014–February 2015
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Elements of Tradition and Change
September 2, 2014-January 9 2015
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Music and the Great War: Sorrow, Anger, Memory
September 2014-January 9, 2015
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The Great War 1914-1918: A Centennial Exhibition
September 2, 2014-December 19, 2014
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Christmas Seals
November 19, 2014 – January 1, 2015
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John Cullen Murphy: An Artist in the Pacific War
October 20–December 22, 2014
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Music in the Ocean State
March 28, 2014-August 31, 2014
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Brown University—Tougaloo College Partnership
May 12 2014-August 15 2014
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Porcelain Figurines from the ASK Brown Military Collection
December 5 2013-April 25 2014
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Picturing Brown: Prints and Photographs from the Brown University Archives
March 8 2014-April 27 2014
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The Art of Illusion: Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana
December 2 2013-March 7 2014
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Flatland and Abbott
October 31 2013-December 5 2013
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Medieval books & manuscripts
October 28-November 22 2013
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Love Medicine
September 23-October 25 2013
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Performing in the Spirit Exhibit
August 19 2013-April 2014
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Student Life at Brown
May 21-October 11, 2013
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The Shadow Over College Street: H. P. Lovecraft in Providence
August 19-September 22 2013
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Models from Architecture Course
May 2013-September 21, 2013
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Highlights from the Mel Yoken Collection
July 2013
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Centennial Images: The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913
Feb-May 31st 2013
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A Picture of Avant-Garde Russia
March-May 15th 2013
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Stamps of the European Microstates
Feb-May 15th 2013
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2013: Verdi Year/Wagner Year
March-May 2013
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RI Center for the Book: Rhode Island Broadsides
Sept 2012-May 2013
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Persian Paintings from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
Thru May 10 2013
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Student Models from City and Cinema
Feb-May 2013
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The Work of a Lifetime: Roger Stoddard
February 2013
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Lincoln, Drawn from Life: Five Artists, Six Portraits
By appointment
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Geoffrey Hill and His Books
Fall 2012
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Rhode Island Slavery and the University
Fall 2012
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Celebrating 120 Years of Women at Brown
April 12 - July 12, 2012
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Independent Publications from Spain and Latin America
Feb-April 2012
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International Year of Chemistry
Sep-Nov 2011
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Woonsocket in the Civil War
May-Sep 2012
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Hall-Hoag Student Exhibit
April 2011
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Keith Waldrop retirement exhibit
April 2011
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Early American and British Popular Amusements
2010
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A Book Collector Faces the Inquisition
2010
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Windows into Early Science and Craft
2010
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Early Italian Books from the Brown University Library
2009
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Aimé Césaire Memorial Symposium and Exhibit
2009
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Environmental History of Hispaniola
2009
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John Hay's Lincoln and Lincoln's John Hay
2008
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Abraham Lincoln in Games, Toys and Stories
2008
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Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons
2008
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Machado de Assis: Then and Now
2008
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Notes of Praise, Notes of Dissent
2008
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Broadway: The American Musical
2005
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Queen Victoria's Christmas Gift to John Brown, 1870
2004
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Street Scenes of Paris in the 19th Century
2004
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Remains of a Medieval Italian Antiphonal
2004
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Celebrating 125 Years of Brown Football
2003
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Cultural Essence Over the Centuries
2003
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José Rodrigues Miguéis Archives
2003
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Brown Seniors 'Crack' Cuneiform Tablets
2002
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Landino's Horace - Tasso's Horace - Horace at Brown
2002
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Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100
2002
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Carriers' Addresses in Nineteenth Century America
2001
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40 Years of Burning Deck Press
2001
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The Robert S. and Margaret A. Ames Collection
2001
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She is More to be Pitied than Censured
1996
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