The barriers to voting and the fight to gain access to voting is an ongoing story in America and the WashU Libraries holds several collections with interviews, media, and other documentation that help ...

A new branch of a Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) recently opened at Washington University. FSRDC branches are located across the country and provide secure environments to support ...

WashU Libraries were awarded a $260,645 grant by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support the digitization project, Connecting Local LGBTQ+ Communities, Past and Present.

October is the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of the A.A. Milne story Winnie the Pooh, which was first published in 1926. Here at WashU Libraries we hold a first edition copy of the ...

The exhibition Look/Read: Illustration as Media History from 1850-1950 is currently installed in the Thomas Gallery at Olin Library through December 2026. The exhibit closely examines the evolution of ...

Over the past 20 years, comics in German-speaking Europe have gone from being dismissed as childish and derivative to an accepted and respected part of the cultural landscape. While the comics market ...

In the following interview, John Garrison Marks, historian and author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (2026), explores the relationship ...

WashU Libraries has received a matching grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to preserve eight reels of film shot by General Leif “Jack” Johan Sverdrup, a World War II engineer ...

For this election season, we have compiled a reading list on American politics, democracy, and elections. All books are available at WashU Libraries, with a few being e-books in our collections.

Beloved illustrator and pioneering entrepreneur Mary Engelbreit has donated a large collection of 120 original illustrations as well as books, consumer products and mockups of her magazine, Mary ...

In June of 2026 I eagerly began a long-anticipated research trip to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota and Sonoma County, California. My research goal is to develop my study of Meridel Le Sueur, a ...