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Handmade Narratives: Creativity, Expression, and Personal Stories within the Student Artist Books Collection
By Lindi M. Harden, Communication Studies ’25, Spring 2025 Intern Over the past several weeks, I’ve spent most of my time as an intern in Rare Books working with the Student Artist Books Collection, and it has quickly become a body of work to which I feel deeply connected. Because of the time I’ve spent…
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Dissecting Double Standards: Gender Biases and Stereotypes in Ohio University Student History, Life, and Culture
Emma Fulton, Marketing and Analytics ‘26; Sydney Donohoo, Marketing ‘25; and Avery Tracz, Marketing ‘25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025 During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR…
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Teaching & Studying the Classics Today: A Faculty & Student Roundtable
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections On November 6, 2023, a group of faculty and students from Classics & Religious Studies came together to discuss collaborative course projects and research conducted in partnership with the Rare Book Collection. A recording of the roundtable is available. Learn more about…
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Making an Impact: Students Contributing to the Humanities @ OHIO Libraries
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections Mahn Center and Digital Initiatives staff have been collaborating with Ohio University faculty on Humanities in the Park since summer 2021. Humanities in the Park is made possible, in part, by a grant from Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National…
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Reblog: Meet an Early Multicultural Student Organization: Ohio University’s Los Amigos, 1947-1952
By Imani Estrada, Marketing, BA 2022, OhioLINK Luminaries Intern 2020-2021. Originally published January 18, 2021, on the Ohio University Libraries Digital Initiatives Tumbler, which predated this Mahn blog. The Student Organization: Los Amigos was a minority student organization established here at Ohio University in fall 1947, continuing through 1952. This student organization was primarily composed…
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Student Project: The Decline of Cursive
The Decline of Cursive: A Digital Exhibit by OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya Thwaites-Brevik The Mahn Center was thrilled to welcome OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya (Nya) Thwaites-Brevik for a seven-week rotation to start off the spring 2022 semester. Nya is a sociology major in the Honors Tutorial College, minoring in psychology and political science with a…
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Geo-locating Athens, Ohio
By Adelle “Del” Stratton, History ’25 with a minor in Computer Science and certificate in Italian Studies, Digital Initiatives Assistant The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, a collection of maps published by the Sanborn Map Company, were made in response to fires during the 19th and 20th centuries. These maps of over 12,000 towns and cities within…
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Summarizing Alan Booth’s Swaziland collection
By June Meehan ’27, History, spring 2025 University Archives intern My name is June Meehan, and I am a second year History major with an interest in archival work and the accessibility of archives. My historical focus includes modern imperial and colonial history. Ohio University Archivist Bill Kimok tasked me with examining and summarizing a…
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Decades of Defiance: LGBTQ+ Activism and Community at Ohio University
By Allie Stevens, Journalism ‘26, Lizzi Montanti, Journalism ‘26, Anna Parasson, Journalism ‘26, Natalie Davet, Journalism ‘26, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La…
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Speaking Out: The Shifting Landscape of Protest and Free Expression at OU
By Darcie Zudell, Journalism: News and Information ‘26, Shyla Algeri, Journalism and Strategic Communications ‘26, Ally Parker, Visual Communications ‘26 and Gigi Twachtman Media Arts Production ‘27, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center…