Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries

Street Address: 300 S. Hull Street Athens, GA 30602

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Lunch & Learn: For All the People

In celebration of National Hospital Week (May 12th - May 18th), join the Richard B. Russell Library on Tuesday, May 14th for a Lunch and Learn! Enjoy a guided tour of the new exhibition For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform. Afterward, a catered lunch will be provided with discussion about the exhibit while learning more about what the Special Collections Libraries have to offer! The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and companion website. 

Reconstructing the Black Archive: The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, the First African American Woman Novelist

Dr. Gregg Hecimovich, 2024-2025 Hutchins Family Fellow and Professor of English at Furman University, will describe his extraordinary research journey to document the life and literary accomplishment of Hannah Bond, who escaped enslavement in North Carolina and subsequently wrote, using the pseudonym “Hannah Crafts,” what scholars consider to be one of the earliest novels written by an African American woman.