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Articles

 

• "Dukedom large enough" By Katherine Hedin, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections

Online exhibits & exhibit brochures

 

• A Voice of Wisdom, Compassion and Hope:
  An Exhibition in Celebration of the Life and Career of Walter F. Mondale.
  On April 7, 2008, an exhibition in honor of the life and career of Vice President Walter F. Mondale opened in the Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center. This brochure is from the exhibition.

   

• Defending Human Rights: The Legacy of Dachau and Nuremberg
  This brochure was prepared for an exhibition in November 2005, held in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of war crimes trials at Dachau and Nuremberg. A unique collection of photographs and documents collected by Horace R. Hansen, prosecutor of war crimes at Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Flossenburg, were the centerpiece of the exhibition.

   

• "To Fulfill These Rights:" African Americans and the Quest For Equality
  A brochure prepared for an exhibition of materials drawn from the Arthur C. Pulling Rare Books Collection and the Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature (April 2004).

   

• This Country is Sacred to My People: American Indian Treaties 1820-1890
  An exhibit catalog prepared on the occasion of the inaugural University of Minnesota Law Library Distinquished Lecturer Series (April 2003).

   

• Early International and Humanitarian Law
  The origins of modern humanitarian law in early treatsies on the law of nations. A selective sampling of representative works from the 14th to early 18th centuries.

   

• Sherlock Holmes and the Law
  Essay and checklist from the Sherlock Holmes exhibition featuring works from the Law Library's Arthur C. Pulling Rare Book Collection and the Sherlock Holmes Collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries (December 2002).

   

• Seven Centuries of Law
  This exhibit traces the development of legal thought and publishing from the late fifteenth century to the present as reflected in a variety of materials from the Law Library's Arthur C. Pulling Rare Books Collection.