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Football at TU
With cozy autumn weather comes the University of Tulsa’s football season! Before attending a game, take a look at some early football photos. Our first highlighted collection is the Albert A. Exendine papers which includes the Carlisle Indian School football … Continue reading
Dame Edith Sitwell
Today celebrates the birthday of British poet and critic Edith Sitwell. Sitwell is celebrated as one of the most important voices of twentieth-century English poetry, next to T.S. Eliot. Born in England in 1887 to indifferent parents, Sitwell spent a large … Continue reading
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Greek Mythology Sketches
One of the current projects of Special Collections is taking inventory of the papers of Redmond S. Cole. Redmond Cole (1881-1959) was a Pawnee County attorney, Mayor of Pawnee, District Attorney, and Judge for the 21st district from 1916 to 1923. He … Continue reading
“Worlds filled with poetry and prose and fact and fantasy”
Celebrated for her poetry and children’s literature books, Eleanor Farjeon was born into a literary family. With a British novelist Father, it is no surprise that Eleanor and two of her three brothers went on to literary fame themselves. Eleanor … Continue reading
The Tribes of North America
Today we are focusing on the illustrated history of some of the Tribes of North America. Let’s celebrate the thriving culture that has prevailed to the current day. Be sure to support Native-owned businesses, read books by Indigenous writers, and … Continue reading
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Sophocles
Greek tragedian Sophocles (roughly 496 BCE-406 BCE) is one of classical Athens’s great playwrights whose work has survived the test of time. As the younger contemporary of Aeschylus and the older contemporary of Euripides, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays. However, only … Continue reading
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Oscar Wilde
St. Patrick’s Day may have passed, but here at Special Collections we are always finding a good reason to celebrate Irish roots. Today we are focusing on Irish poet, playwright, and writer Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde. Oscar Wilde was … Continue reading
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Mardi Gras
Happy Mardi Gras from Special Collections! Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years to Pagan celebrations of spring and fertility. This includes the Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Lupercalia! With the immergence of Christianity, these local traditions were incorporated and … Continue reading
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Tagged artists books, carnival, Cookbooks, fat tuesday, lent, Libraries, lupercalia, mardi gras, recipe, saturnalia, Special Collections, university of tulsa
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Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward) (1764-1823) was an English writer in the 18th century and known as a one of the founders of Gothic fiction. As a writer of the early Romantic period, Ann was a pioneer in the genre of … Continue reading
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