Archives & Special Collections invites you to learn about and celebrate the rich history of cultural student organizations and activism from Santa Clara University’s students by interacting with our newest digital collection, The Multicultural Center and Cultural Student Organizations at SCU. This collection collates and displays documents relating to the Multicultural Center and cultural student […]
After a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner of tomato cocktail, turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, peas, and cranberry sauce, topped off with a huge piece of apple pie and a piping hot cup of tea, we all took a much needed walk to the Industrial Building where we enjoyed the following Thanksgiving […]
Santa Clara University Library Archives & Special Collections is pleased to announce the completion of our newest digital collection, The Nobili Papers. The Nobili Papers digital collection consists of documents from Santa Clara’s first president, Fr. John Nobili, who served from the college’s founding in 1851 to his untimely death from tetanus in 1856. A […]
This is the third in a three-part series about the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on SCU. Follow the tag SCU_WWII to read all three posts. It may seem like SCU has never faced a crisis as extreme as the current Covid-19 crisis and racial justice unrest we are now facing. […]
Header Image: SC Cadets are captured on film heading to class in July of 1943 by Father Hubbard (Image courtesy of SCU Digital Collections). Classes being held during the summer was one of the main changes to the curriculum during World War II. This is the second in a three-part series about the effects of […]
This is the first in a three-part series about the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on SCU. Follow the tag SCU_WWII to read all three posts. Universities across the world have shifted to virtual instruction this past Spring, ushering in a huge shift in the way curriculum is designed and the […]
On May 13, 2020 Santa Clara’s Mission Church will celebrate the 92nd anniversary of its dedication, which happened on May 13, 1928. 1928—I hope you caught that—is not during the famous mission era of California history. What’s going on with this timeline? Here at Santa Clara we all know and love the Mission Church, but […]
As week seven of the Santa Clara County shelter-in-place order begins, many of us are thinking longingly of our past time spent strolling through the Mission Gardens or diligently working on projects in the Learning Commons. Perhaps you’re dreaming of a future where you can once again enjoy Taco Tuesday at The Hut after a […]
Not being able to meet face-to-face hasn’t stopped our students from interacting with Archives & Special Collections materials! For one of our Critical Thinking & Writing II (CTW II) classes, Librarian Summer Shetenhelm and Professor Amy Lueck asked students to create social media posts inspired by an object in SCU’s Digital Collections. The activity was […]
Santa Clara has gone through its fair share of crises—fires, earthquakes, and world wars, just to name a few—but so far we have always been able to use the crisis to evolve and improve. If we can learn anything from the outcome of the 1918 flu pandemic on our beloved school, it’s that tragedy and […]
