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Oct 16
ZOOM

Historian and author of An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater. Hughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence, predominance, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture, both in the […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with the cover of Amy E. Hughes' book "An Actor's Tale."
Oct 16

Homecoming Weekend Guided Tour

October 16, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Homecoming Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 10 am

October 23, 2026 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 1 pm

October 23, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 4 pm

October 23, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 28

Haunted Histories

October 28, 2026 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET

William L. Clements Library

Join the Clements Library for a spooktacular open-house style event. Go undercover as a detective to solve the murder of a 1910s mayor before a new mayor (who’s possibly the killer) is elected!

Nov 13

Guided Tour

November 13, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Nov 20
ZOOM

In her book, Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era, Anne Ruggles Gere complicates and enriches established accounts of the Indian boarding school era and what preceded it by looking closely at the largely ignored Indigenous women teachers in these schools. Focusing on Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with the cover of Anne Ruggles Gere's "Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era"
Dec 18
ZOOM

Bookseller and collector Garrett Scott joins Julia Miller and Clements Curator of Books Emi Hastings to discuss the Garrett Scott Collection of Vernacular Bindings recently acquired by the Clements Library. Scott’s working definition of “vernacular binding” is “an alteration or addition to the book, pamphlet, or leaf, when this alteration is made by an owner […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with a picture of a stack of books with various types of amateur binding repairs.