Today 11 years ago, President Obama awarded C.T. Vivian with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. We are immensely proud to be the home of C.T. and Octavia Vivian's papers. Learn more in this documentary: buff.ly/4chs4XT

The 1996 Olympic torch relay originated in Greece before its journey across the U.S. by 12,467 torchbearers on foot, spaceship, horseback, train, cable car, ferry, wheelchair, seaplane, sailboat, and mule-drawn wagon. #ArchivesGoForGold 📷: Gary Monroe papers and photographs

Imani Benjamin is our new Senior Public Services Specialist, helping us manage our reference services. Imani came to us from Emory Libraries' Access Services Department. In her spare time, she is an avid fan of horror & sci-fi films, and she also earned her MLIS this summer! 🎓

#RoseResearch2024 Dominic D'Amour is a doctoral candidate at the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada. At Rose Library, he dug into the papers of two intellectuals who supported US President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society". Read his blog post now: buff.ly/3SXWUhd

This "Book of Sports" from 1834 explains the types of athletic pursuits that people can enjoy. The entry for gymnastics says that, "it has been said that gymnastics are not only worthless, but unnatural." 😅 Try telling Simone Biles or Stephen Nedoroscik that! #ArchivesGoForGold

🚨 Event Alert! 🚨 Join us on Sat., 9/14 at 1pm for an afternoon with Anna Maria Horsford and Victoria Rowell! This event is part of the Billops-Hatch Artist and Influence Programming Series. Register for this free public event here: buff.ly/3Aw4rOa

Happy move-in day to many of our @emoryuniversity students, including our first years! 🦅 We hope that this day goes smoothly, whether you are moving into your first dorm or into your first apartment. 📷: Office of Alumni Publications photographs, undated

Today is one of Emory's more unique traditions - our Coke toast! 🥂 The toast honors the relationship between Coca-Cola and Emory that first began in the early 1900s. Fun fact: in 1982, over 2,000 Emory community members broke the world record for the largest non-alcoholic toast!

We hope you'll join us at this year's Artist & Influence program! It will be held on Saturday, Sept. 14th at 1pm in Woodruff Library's Jones Room. 🎭 The event is free and open to the public. Register here: buff.ly/3Aw4rOa 📷: Camille Billops and James V. Hatch archives

Our newest blog post, "Announcement: The Be Present Inc. records and the Lillie P. Allen papers are now at the Rose!" highlights two of our newest collections to arrive at Rose. Learn more about the acquisitions now: buff.ly/3Xg5VDD

Rare books are often filled with eye-catching #ArchivesPatterns! Whether it's the marbling on the endpapers, or gold tooling on the cover and spine, rare books are works of art! Check out these items from Rose's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library #ArchivesHashtagParty U.S. National Archives

"Of the ex-Confederate settlements that emerged in Brazil in the late 1860s, Americana is the most notable, given the fact that the community today is still inhabited by descendants of the original emigrants." Our newest #RoseResearch2024 blog is up now! buff.ly/3AXKUq5

Beginning 9/12, Rose Library is hosting a small exhibit of photographs from the recently-acquired Gary Monroe photographs and papers at Different Trains Gallery in Decatur. The opening celebration is Thurs. 5pm-8pm, and a conversation with Gary himself is on Sat. 9/14 at 2pm!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our first Miscellaneous Monthly! Those who stopped by saw items related to childhood, including a report card, birthday advice from a young Flannery O'Connor, Christmas lists, a first edition Wizard of Oz, and several pop up books.