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Focus on a Decade of Folger Institute Research and Community
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Focus on a Decade of Folger Institute Research and Community

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Leah Thomas Owen Williams

In the past decade, seventy-five different Guest Authors have published over one hundred posts in The Collation. Roughly half of these contributors wrote posts about their experiences working with the Folger collections and researcher community through Institute-sponsored programming. Many fellows…

Report from the field: network analysis
Max Schich presenting at the EMDA institute
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Report from the field: network analysis

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Ruth Ahnert

A guest post by Dr. Ruth Ahnert In July 2017 the Folger Institute welcomed participants and faculty to the third of its Early Modern Digital Agendas (EMDA) gatherings—an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. The EMDA institutes…

A Recipe’s Place is in the Classroom
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A Recipe’s Place is in the Classroom

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger Shakespeare Library is many things: an internationally-renowned research library, a museum, a performance space, a center for innovative digital initiatives, and home to some of the best air conditioning on Capitol Hill (not something to be overlooked during…

From tweet to resource
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From tweet to resource

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Sarah Werner

This is the story of how a tweet can grow into an amazing scholarly resource. (And it ends with a plea for you to help!) Just over a year ago, in January 2013, I was looking through the Folger’s collection…

Q & A: Carol Brobeck, Fellowships Administrator
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Q & A: Carol Brobeck, Fellowships Administrator

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The Collation

title page of The Mariners Mirrour Anyone who has been a Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library can attest to the central role that Carol Brobeck plays as the Fellowships Administrator in making their work possible. She has also worked…

One way of looking at many books
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One way of looking at many books

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Sarah Werner

Last week I wrote about two students who worked on (two different copies of) the same book. But looking over the 64 texts that the 66 students I’ve taught over the last five years (in eight different seminars), I’m struck…

Two ways of looking at the same book
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Two ways of looking at the same book

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Sarah Werner

As I’ve written about before, in my Undergraduate Seminars students devote the bulk of their research time to crafting a biography of the book they’ve chosen as their primary focus. They find out who wrote the book and who printed…

“What’s that letter?”: Searching for water amongst the leaves
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“What’s that letter?”: Searching for water amongst the leaves

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Lehua Yim

A guest post by Folger Institute participant and short-term fellow Lehua Yim Sixteenth-century England was particularly formative in the long history of what “Britain” means for the peoples of that archipelago, as reformulations of political, legal, economic, and religious institutions…

Something borrowed . . .
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Something borrowed . . .

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Caryn Lazzuri Georgianna Ziegler

Georgianna: Did you ever wonder why or how we borrow items to show in our exhibitions at the Folger? Let’s use the upcoming “Shakespeare’s Sisters: Women Writers, 1500-1700,” opening on February 2, 2012, as an example. My colleague Caryn Lazzuri…

Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
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Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November

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Kathleen Lynch

Last week, while flipping through a magazine (sorry, I don’t recall which one, but you probably all read the same stuff I do), my attention was caught by a photo of two people wearing what I immediately recognized as Guy…

Undergraduate reports from the Reading Room
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Undergraduate reports from the Reading Room

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Sarah Werner

Today’s post features two accounts from students at The George Washington University who are in this semester’s Folger Undergradaute Seminar. Lyssa Meddin When I first heard about the Folger Shakespeare Library Undergraduate Seminar I was finishing up my freshman year…

The KJV, Ben Franklin, and Noah Webster
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The KJV, Ben Franklin, and Noah Webster

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Adrienne Shevchuk

As part of the library’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, the Folger Institute hosted a conference bringing together scholars from across the United States and the United Kingdom to discuss the effect…

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