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Explore TUSC Through Video

Tulane University Special Collections has an active social media presence including Instagram (@tuspeccoll), Facebook (Tulane University Special Collections), and YouTube. TUSC has more than thirty YouTube videos online that explore our exhibitions, collections, events, and highlights from our digital collections. Recent… (read more)

TUSC Welcomes Your Visit

Tulane University Special Collections transitioned to our new, online appointment system in late 2021, and just over a year later our feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently open to the public Monday through Friday from 10am to 12pm and 1pm to 4pm. We know that all of the rules can be a little confusing… (read more)

Professor Michael Kuczynski discussing TUSC material with workshop participants.

Rac(e)ing the Shakespearean Archive: Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction New Orleans

TUSC recently partnered with Tulane School of Liberal Arts Professor of English Michael Kuczynski and Professor of Theater John “Ray” Proctor to explore the intersection of race and Shakespeare in the antebellum South. With a grant from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Kuczynski and Proctor hosted ten visiting scholars on… (read more)

“I Shall Not Be Moved”: Black Student Life at Tulane, 1963-2023

Tulane University Special Collections announces a new exhibition: “I Shall Not Be Moved”: Black Student Life at Tulane, 1963-2023

On view from April 20, 2023 – September 22, 2023

In July 2020, Tulane’s Black Student Union released a list of demands and expectations calling for an “Institutional revolution.” It was a call that referenced… (read more)

L. to r.: Louis Prima, Gia Maione Prima, Frank Sinatra, Las Vegas, circa 1960s, venue and photographer unidentified, Louis Prima collection, HJA-041, Tulane University Special Collections.

The Louis Prima collection is open for research at Tulane University Special Collections

The Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a unit of Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC), is pleased to announce that the Louis Prima collection is fully processed and open to researchers.

The Prima collection is 38.92 linear feet, and includes personal papers, business papers, correspondence, sheet music, photographs, publicity materials, ephemera, and… (read more)

Women’s History Month - The Library's REC's

Women’s History Month Films- March 2023

RBG (2018)

Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s engaging 2018 biographical documentary RBG examines the remarkable life and legal career of former associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

View this candid study of a pop culture icon and trailblazing champion for gender equality here: … (read more)

Don Ewell, seated at piano, plays with trumpeter Bunk Johnson and his band, unidentified date and location, photographer: Ward Silver; Don Ewell collection, HJA-005, Tulane University Special Collections, New Orleans, LA.

Newly processed collection of pianist Don Ewell highlights traditional New Orleans jazz

Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) has completed the processing of the Don Ewell collection, both improving its research discoverability and ensuring long-term preservation. The collection contains materials both related to and amassed by pianist Don Ewell, including correspondence, photographs, clippings, audiovisual media, sheet music, posters, books, and ephemera ranging 1894 –… (read more)

Richard E. Greenleaf Library Fellowships for 2023-2024 – NOW OPEN!!

We are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Richard E. Greenleaf Library Fellowships at the Latin American Library, Tulane University, for researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean, for 2023-2024

Research fellowship… (read more)

Women Leading Change: Case Studies in Women, Gender, and Feminism | New Issues

The open access journal Women Leading Change: Case Studies in Women, Gender, and Feminism has just published two new issues via the libraries’ open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing service. … (read more)

Tulane University Libraries Signs Transformative Open Access Agreement with Elsevier

Tulane University Libraries has signed a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, one of the largest publishers of scholarly journals in the world, publishing more than 2,600 titles. The agreement is among the first of its kind between Elsevier and an independent U.S. library negotiating outside of a large consortium and comes just weeks after… (read more)