Tag: Friends Historical Library
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Welcoming Jordan Landes, Curator of the Friends Historical Library
Jordan Landes joined our community on March 11, 2019. Jordan joins us from the Senate House Library, the central library of the University of London where she was a Research Librarian for History. A true exemplar of the value of a liberal arts education, Jordan has worked in libraries whose foci are literature and theater…
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Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary Launch Event
Our friends in the Swarthmore College Library and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility invite you to join them on Sunday, Nov. 19th from 1:00-4:00 at the Perelman Building at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to learn more about Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project. At the event, you can meet the book artists…
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Peace symbol atop Parrish Hall?
By Christopher Densmore, Curator, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. The weather vane atop Parrish Hall is in the shape of a feather. People with sharp eyes may have noticed that the feather has been fashioned into a quill pen. This is easier to see in the old Parrish Hall weathervane mounted on the wall on…
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Moore Research Fellowship at Swarthmore College
Interested in conducting research in the Friends Historical Library or the Peace Collection at Swarthmore College? Apply for the Moore Research Fellowship! Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship Swarthmore College SYNOPSIS: The purpose of the Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship is to provide a stipend to promote research during the…
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New video on Swarthmore founder and social justice leader, Lucretia Mott
Congratulations and thanks to Chris Densmore and everyone involved in the production of this short video on Lucretia Mott. Swatties will recognize several of the locations in which interviews were filmed.
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TODAY: Learn about Joshua Evansc an active Quaker abolitionist
Joshua Evans Event at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Wednesday, April 9, 4:30 PM Ralph Greene of New England Yearly Meeting will present a program on Joshua Evans (1741-1798). Evans was considered “singular” even by the Quakers. He was an early and active abolitionist, traveling as far South Carolina to bear testimony against enslavement,…