This exhibit brings together traditions and many other fun and unusual tales about our campus, from its founding in 1856 as the Maryland Agricultural College (MAC) to the twenty-first century.

This exhibit highlights four themes in the history of Maryland Agriculture with materials selected from the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the University of Maryland Libraries.

This electronic exhibit, previously on display in the Maryland Room, features the work of four Maryland authors from the hard-boiled school of crime/mystery writing.

An exhibition of Washington theater memorabilia from the collection of noted theater historian Robert Headley.

On May 27, 1986, the News American printed its final issue ending a Baltimore newspaper dynasty that began in 1773 with the Maryland Journal and the Baltimore Advertiser. This exhibit highlights the approximately 1.5 million photographic images contained in the photo morgue of the Baltimore News American newspaper.

Maryland has a distinguished position in the annals of American typography. After Massachusetts, it was the second colony to establish and sustain a printing press. The exhibit shows a selection of items from the Maryland Collection illustrating major developments in the typographical history of the state.

This exhibit of selected Prange Collection photographs, magazines, newspapers, documents, and books reflects the state of Japan during the first four years of the Occupation. The exhibit was initially displayed in Hornbake Library on the University of Maryland, College Park campus, February 22 - May 24, 2002.

This exhibition showcases the extensive collections pertaining to the French Revolution found in the Special Collections of the University of Maryland Libraries.

The Nuremberg Chronicle, more properly known as the Liber Chronicarum, is a history of the world from creation to its publication in 1493. This exhibit explores the meaning and production of the Nuremberg Chronicle.

This exhibit is a sampling of the Ephemeral and Graphic Materials in the World's Fair Collection owned by the Architecture Library at the University of Maryland, College Park. The site contains a virtual exhibition gallery for each international exhibition in the collection from London's Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 to the Expo '70in Osaka, Japan.

To celebrate the 75th year of publishing of Nancy Drew books, the University of Maryland Libraries featured an exhibit on Girls' Series books in the Rose and Joseph Pagnani Collection. Although Nancy Drew is the star of the exhibit, other girls' series heroines such as Vicki Barr, Sue Barton, Judy Bolton, and the Dana Girls are also included.

The history of piano playing is built from a large and complex network of piano dynasties, a network that reflects a wide variety of approaches to technique and interpretation.

Yale will be remembered by his colleagues as a vivid presence, dedicated in equal measure to librarianship, service, scholarship, and musicianship and as a loyal friend who touched numerous lives across the country.

This exhibit celebrates the publication of At the Barriers (University of Chicago Press, July 2009), the first book-length collection of essays about British-born poet Thom Gunn (1929-2004).

The English editor John Owen Ward (1919-2000) is best known for his work at New York's Oxford University Press and his oversight of The Oxford Companion to Music.

The Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland holds an assortment of archival collections pertaining to women's contributions to American radio and television. This exhibit offers a sampling of items drawn from those collections.