#digital exhibit

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Our current exhibit, "Evolution on the Stand: Revisiting the Scopes Trial at 100," is now available online!

The digital exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of one of America’s most storied courtroom dramas, The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. The 1925 trial of John Scopes, accused of violating a Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution, became a national sensation and the focal point of a public debate over the roles of science and religion in public education.

The digital exhibit features all of the collection items currently on display, along with: information about the Law Library's preeminent Clarence Darrow collection, profiles of the major players of the trial, daily trial summaries, and two timelines related to the origins of evolutionary thought and its later debate.

"Evolution on the Stand: Revisiting the Scopes Trial at 100" was created by Law Library rare books curator, Ryan Greenwood, archives and digital collections associate, Sophia Daley, digital technology specialist, Joy Brown, and associate director, Michael Hannon.

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Milwaukee Meets Washington

Next week, political enthusiasts from all over the country will flock to Milwaukee to take part in the Republican National Convention.

In honor of this upcoming exercise in democracy, UWM Archives has put together a digital exhibit highlighting notable Milwaukee visits from presidents, presidential candidates and political figures.

In addition to the imagery and digitized footage from both the Archives and the Wisconsin Historical Society, the exhibit includes a brief chronicle of Wisconsin's role as a swing state in national elections.

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When Dr. Wesley Memeger Jr. started at DuPont in 1964, he was only the fourth African American with a doctorate in chemistry to join the company.

Over the course of a thirty-two-year career, Memeger amassed fourteen patents and left his mark on some of DuPont’s most famous products, like Kevlar, the synthetic fiber found in bulletproof vests. His passion for chemistry has also influenced his career as an artist; Memeger’s pieces often explore geometrical themes reminiscent of molecular models. On February 24, Hagley Library, in partnership with Clark Atlanta University and Bloomfield College, premiered Dr. Wesley Memeger, Jr., Science Into Art, a special documentary chronicling the life of Dr. Wesley Memeger, Jr. Now, we’re please to announce the debut of a digital exhibit to accompany that work.

The exhibit, Dr. Wesley Memeger Jr.: Scientist, Artist, Activist, covers key points of Memeger’s life story and makes use of archival photographs as well as clips from an oral history of Dr. Memeger conducted by Dr. Jeanne Nutter in 2020, which also served as the primary source for the documentary. Visitors to the exhibit can listen as Memeger recounts his journey, beginning as the son and grandson of farmers in St. Augustine, Florida during the era of Jim Crow laws, following his interest in science to Clark College, a historically Black university in Atlanta, at the height of the movement for Black civil rights, to his career at DuPont and his intriguing transition from scientist to artist.

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Digital Exhibit: “Noted & Notable” and "Böcker Har Sina Öden”

The Law Library and Riesenfeld Center are pleased to announce two new digital exhibits: "Noted and Notable: Treasures of the Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center" and "'Böcker Har Sina Öden' (Books Have Their Destinies): Treasures of the Swedish Law Collection at the Riesenfeld Center”

The digital exhibits preserve and make available online the Riesenfeld Center's spring exhibits, highlighting treasures of the Law Library's special collections. In particular, the items in these exhibits have been chosen for their unusual value as artifacts, including such features as interesting annotations, associations with notable former owners, striking illustrations, beautiful bindings, and other properties that make historical law books fascinating objects that are worthy of study.

"Böcker Har Sina Öden' (Books Have Their Destinies)," was curated by Professor Eric Bylander, who has been twice a visiting professor at the Law School and is Distinguished University Professor at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University.

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Digital Exhibit: “Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice”

The Law Library and Riesenfeld Center are pleased to announce a new digital exhibit: “Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice.” The digital exhibit preserves online the Riesenfeld Center's new fall exhibit, which aims to continue a number of important and ongoing conversations at the Law School regarding race and the law. In particular, the exhibit draws on the extensive collections at the Riesenfeld Center to highlight important moments in the Black American struggle for racial justice, from the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibit considers historical legal cases, legislation, and events that saw civil rights denied, limited, and advanced, from early anti-slavery movements, to the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 60s, and projects for police reform in the 1980s.

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Upcoming Fall Exhibit: Racial Justice and the Law

This fall, the Riesenfeld Center will open a new exhibit on racial justice and the law, continuing a number of ongoing conversations at the Law School regarding race and criminal and civil law in American society. The exhibit will consider the struggle for equal rights through legal cases and events that saw those rights denied, limited, or advanced, amidst determined and continuing movements for equality.

Check out our blog for a small preview of the types of materials featured in the exhibit.

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Missing your springtime strolls at the Hagley Museum and Library? Same girl, same. We know that feeling, which is why the staff of the Hagley has been hard at work putting together #HagleyFromHome, a one-stop resource page for new and rediscoverable online experiences at Hagley.

The Hagley From Home pages offers visitors behind the scenes stories with our Hagley Historian, 360-degree tours of our property, views of the spring blooms on our grounds, and dives into our digital archives and exhibits.  There are also helpful resources for parents and teachers with Field Trips From Home and Virtual Science Saturdays to supplement at-home learning. Themed social content is posted daily, and new content, like our recently curated Hagley Film Showcase page, is being added regularly. 

The web address is www.hagley.org/fromhome, but you may also navigate to the page from a tile on our homepage. We hope you enjoy Hagley From Home and encourage you to share it with friends and family!

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Introducing My New Digital Exhibit!

Introducing My New Digital Exhibit! https://creativeramblings.com/latest-news/new-digital-exhibit

What does the word “home” mean to you? I started asking myself this question when working on Walks, a series of books celebrating the Haiku. When I published the last volume, I realized how much my experiences as an immigrant (I moved to Canada from France in 2003) had shaped my definition of the word “home” as a spiritual place rather than just a physical location. “Your house is your larger…

Introducing My New Digital Exhibit!