JHU Students Explore Langsdale’s Special Collections on Baltimore ‘Gayborhoods’

  Langsdale’s Special Collections was recently featured in Johns Hopkins University HUB after their students took great advantage of the wealth of resources at home in UB’s Learning Commons: “Students sift through archives to uncover the history of Baltimore’s ‘gayborhoods’”. Continue reading JHU Students Explore Langsdale’s Special Collections on Baltimore ‘Gayborhoods’

RED Talks: Research Engagement Day

RED Talks, Research Engagement Day, is next Tuesday and Langsdale can’t wait to celebrate the research and creative works of UB’s faculty and graduate students! RED Talks is an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to share their research with Continue reading RED Talks: Research Engagement Day

Free Workshops for UB Students

Langsdale is gearing up for the Spring 2018 semester with FREE workshops for UB students! Langsdale’s Achievement & Learning Center (ALC) offers around 200 workshops for the UB community every year. Whether you’re looking for course preparation (happening now!), computer Continue reading Free Workshops for UB Students

A Time Travel Tour of Baltimore’s Public Markets

Richmond Market, formerly at the location of Howard and Read Streets Hung over from the hustle of last minute holiday shopping? Langsdale Special Collections has an antidote: traveling through time to visit stores–in this case, Baltimore’s public markets–and simultaneously not Continue reading A Time Travel Tour of Baltimore’s Public Markets

Tribute Honors Donor and Dance Legend Anderson

Anderson in action, courtesy of Langsdale Special Collections Modern dance legend Eva Anderson’s gift of her papers, photographs, publicity materials and artifacts to Langsdale Special Collections helps us celebrate her life in perpetuity. On November 26th at Morgan State University, Continue reading Tribute Honors Donor and Dance Legend Anderson

First Television Station in Baltimore

In 1956, 2” Quad became the first videotape format with commercial success. From that point until the late 1970s, this video format was used to record the vast majority of broadcast television. The playback equipment needed to view 2” Quad tape is Continue reading First Television Station in Baltimore