Crystal Feimster, a historian of African-American history, U.S. women’s history, and the American South, has been appointed the next Head of Pierson College.
The Gutenberg Bible is one of the treasures of Yale University’s Beinecke Library the first book printed with movable type in Europe. Now it has a companion, a much older Japanese scroll made with an earlier form of printing, and one of the oldest known printed objects in the world.
A 1,250-year-old print of Buddhist prayers the earliest known printed text will join Yale’s Gutenberg Bible on regular display at the Beinecke Library.
Abstract. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the ethnic Japanese (wajin) population of Hokkaido ballooned from roughly sixty thousand residents, prim