Looking ahead to South Africa…
Poster issued when Mandela first visited the United States following his release from prison in 1990, courtesy the poster collection of the Herskovits Library of African Studies. Mandela’s health...
View ArticleItems from Obama’s visit to Tanzania added to Herskovits Library collection
Erik Ponder, Northwestern University Library staff member, has just returned from Tanzania with documentation for the Herskovits Library collections that supplements his blog posts here about President...
View ArticleTicket from President Obama’s speech at University of Cape Town added to...
Invitation to President Obama’s speech at the University of Cape Town, now part of the The Herskovits Library’s collections [photo by Esmeralda Kale]. The Herskovits Library’s Bibliographer of...
View ArticleTukufu Zuberi visits the Herskovits Library
Today the Herskovits Library received a visit from Tukufu Zuberi, historian, documentary filmmaker, and new co-host of the PBS television show The History Detectives Herskovits Library Curator David...
View ArticleDikgang Moseneke visits the Herskovits Library
Dikgang Moseneke, Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, paid a visit to the Herskovits Library this afternoon. Moseneke is on a week-long visit to Northwestern University...
View ArticleRemembering Hans E. Panofsky
A new exhibition highlighting publications of Hans E. Panofsky, Herskovits Library Curator, 1959-1991, has opened in the Herskovits Library exhibition cases. The exhibition, curated by Librarian of...
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