News & Events
Archives in the News
January 17, 2012
Archives Concentrator Amanda Ferrara ’13 and alumna Judith Lager Glazer-Raymo ’53 collaborated on a poetry reading of works by Sylvia Plath ’55 at the Grolier Club in New York City.
November 8th
Queer History of Smith College
An Archival Exhibit Curated by Mandy Lineweber and Olivia Mandica-Hart
Gallery Talk with Olivia Mandica-Hart
at 4:30 p.m.
Alumnae Gym
Public History 2036, The Next 25 Years
A two day Conference on Public History at UMASS September 23 & 24.
Included in the speakers is Graciela Sanchez, a contributer to the Sophia Smith Collection.
See Link for more details
Public History 2036
Opening Reception for Archives Capstone April 29, 2011
Are Archivists Today's Real Peacemakers?
The New Yorker, February 3, 2010
"Politicians, beauty queens, and rock stars all claim they want world peace. But could the unassuming archivist, more likely to be found buried in a stack of yellowing newspapers than at a global summit, be the true peacemaker of our time?..."
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Special Collections as Laboratories
Financial Times, October 16, 2009
Other colleges are discovering the power of special collections, something Smith has known and used for decades.
Historians look to the future
Financial Times, August 10, 2009
Helping designers to develop skincare products was not what Sophie Clapp had in mind when she trained as an archivist. But after working with Churchill's wartime papers—via a spell in Unilever's archive—that is what she ended up doing, at Boots. The result was Boots Original Beauty Formula, an apothecary-style range marking the company's 160th anniversary.
