Pick of the week, Jan. 11: Broadsides from the Revoutionary War

What is a broadside?  It’s another term for a poster, but often with more words than pictures on it.  I’ve been cataloging a small stack of broadsides printed during and after the American Revolutionary War.  Here are two proclamations printed as broadsides — one from the governor of Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull, in 1777, and a … Read more

Mutanabbi Street broadsides

Throughout history, artists and writers have commented on, protested, or memorialized events current to their time, and today’s artists continue to do the same.  Special Collections & Archives recently acquired a set of broadsides (that is, printed large single sheets of  paper, like a poster) that are part of the “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” project. … Read more