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Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure During the Jim Crow Era
The Jim Crow era was marked by strict racial segregation, severely limiting Black individuals’ mobility and dignity. Public leisure spaces were often segregated, making travel dangerous and...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 3:58 PM
UMBC Special Collections receives more than 12,000 volumes from Parapsychology Foundation
UMBC Special Collections has been given an extraordinary gift of one of the world’s largest collections devoted to parapsychology, from the Parapsychology Foundation, Inc. in Greenport, New York....
Posted: October 24, 2022, 1:33 PM
Antonio McAfee: Through the Layers, Pt. 2
UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents the work of Baltimore artist Antonio McAfee in the exhibition Antonio McAfee: Through the Layers, Pt. 2, now through March 13. Since 2011, Antonio...
Posted: February 14, 2020, 8:27 PM
UMBC welcomes Beth Saunders as the new curator and head of Special Collections
Curator, educator, and photohistorian Beth Saunders has joined UMBC as the new curator and head of special collections and the gallery at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. She will oversee...
Posted: November 6, 2018, 11:03 PM
Library Gallery displays recent acquisitions in “Depth of Field” exhibition
On Wednesday, August 29, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery launches UMBC’s Fall 2018 arts season with the exhibition Depth of Field, presenting approximately one hundred images acquired over the...
Posted: August 29, 2018, 11:42 AM
UMBC honors Frederick Douglass’s legacy with event to transcribe Freedmen’s Bureau papers
The UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities will host its first Humanities Teaching Lab (HT Lab) on February 14, as part of UMBC’s new Inclusion Imperative program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon...
Posted: February 7, 2018, 4:58 PM
Legends of Excellence Awards celebrate UMBC faculty and staff who inspire black and Latino students
UMBC’s Legends of Excellence Awards Brunch, sponsored by the Chapter of Black and Latino Alumni every five years, recently honored four awardees who have played instrumental roles in the success...
Posted: June 7, 2017, 3:45 PM
UMBC welcomes Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden for conversation on digital access
The UMBC community welcomed U.S. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden to campus on April 13, 2017 for a conversation on her new role heading the oldest federal cultural institution in the nation....
Posted: April 18, 2017, 6:27 PM
Stanley B. Burns donates daguerreotype collection to UMBC
A recent gift by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. substantially increases the holdings of daguerreotypes at UMBC. Dr. Burns, historian, collector, and physician, donated 252 daguerreotypes from his large...
Posted: April 11, 2017, 8:04 PM
Exhibition and lecture explore the artwork and changing society of Myanmar
Nay Aung Shu, Crowded life, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 48″, courtesy of Thukhuma/Ian Holliday. Opening on January 30 and continuing until March 26, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery will...
Posted: January 24, 2017, 9:50 PM
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