Services for Summer and Fall 2022
Students are invited to apply for one-semester, or summer fellowship with the Lafayette libraries’ Special Collections & College Archives. Through sustained focus on bibliographic or archival material, the activity will focus on experiential projects with original historical sources held in Skillman Library.
Explore the history of Lafayette College through a variety of online resources.
The QAP digital humanities project is a timeline-based Scalar site shaped around the dynamic interface among oral history interviews, related archival materials and emergent scholarship and research. Structured through themes generated by the oral histories, the digital humanities project offers an innovative, multi-dimensional platform from which to learn about Queer history, conduct scholarship, and share research. Lafayette students are working side by side with faculty, digital scholarship services specialists and archivists to conceptualize, develop and create the site.
As part of the campus-wide celebration of the arrival of women students on September 10, 1970, the College Archives showcases photographs, documents, and…
In July of 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy appealed to college and university board presidents to extend equal educational opportunities to the nation’s…
Fifty years ago this May and two weeks before final exams, approximately one-third of Lafayette College students coordinated a strike in protest of the…