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Oct 1, 2025

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Currently on view in Butler Library, "Streets Taken" places the photographs and archival materials of Edward Schwartz from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in conversation with new works from MFA candidate Francisco Javier Ramírez.

Sep 30, 2025

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Archivists at the Burke Library process the papers of British theologian John McGuckin, a former professor at Union Theological Seminary, and find handwritten annotations, jokes, and notes written throughout.

Aug 18, 2025

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Researcher Tim Hastings, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, consults a collection of 18th-century sermons by Jonathan Ashley at the Burke Library in his study of slavery in the Connecticut River Valley.

Aug 13, 2025

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A new exhibition at the Burke Library highlights the first librarian at Union Theological Seminary, Edward Robinson, whose 19th-century travels in Palestine led to the development of the field of "biblical geography."

Jul 28, 2025

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Visit a new exhibition in the Burke Library, "Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes," that features paintings by artist Beatrice Terrien, who was raised on the Union Theological Seminary campus and remains a friend of the library.

Apr 2, 2025

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The Burke Library recently hosted “Aurality and Devotion in the Pre-Modern World,” a multi-disciplinary project on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic devotional song that brought together leading scholars from the U.S. and Europe to share and discuss their research.

Mar 17, 2025

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A grandfather's diary: The staff of the Burke Library share the papers of Christian missionary and Union Theological Seminary alum Darley Downs with his grandson and great-grandson to explore their family legacy.

Feb 11, 2025

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The Burke Library partnered with the Department of History to host the inaugural "History Happy Hour," facilitated by professors Julie Lillis and Simran Jeet Singh and intended to create a space for in-person and online participants to engage with a given subject matter.

Jan 29, 2025

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The Burke Library, in partnership with the Center for Earth Ethics, recently hosted a book launch to celebrate the publication of "Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope" by Catherine Coleman Flowers.

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On View | Streets Taken: Photography by Edward Schwartz and Francisco Javier Ramírez

Annotations, Jokes, and Little Notes: Processing the Papers of John McGuckin

“Spiritual Liberty is Not Inconsistent with a State of Servitude”: Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley

Edward Robinson’s “Biblical Researches in Palestine”

Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes: Paintings by Beatrice Terrien

Aurality and Devotion in the Premodern World Project

A Grandfather’s Diary: The Darley Downs Papers

Hybrid History Happy Hour

“Holy Ground” Book Launch with Catherine Flowers

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On View | Streets Taken: Photography by Edward Schwartz and Francisco Javier Ramírez

Annotations, Jokes, and Little Notes: Processing the Papers of John McGuckin

“Spiritual Liberty is Not Inconsistent with a State of Servitude”: Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley

Edward Robinson’s “Biblical Researches in Palestine”

Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes: Paintings by Beatrice Terrien

Aurality and Devotion in the Premodern World Project

A Grandfather’s Diary: The Darley Downs Papers

Hybrid History Happy Hour

“Holy Ground” Book Launch with Catherine Flowers

News Archive