With Grand Reunion and the inauguration of Father O’Brien, Santa Clara’s 29th President, upon us, we at Archives & Special Collections would like to invite the Santa Clara community to reflect upon the great legacy left by our 28 past presidents. Click through the timeline below to learn more about each one of Santa Clara’s […]
This is the third part of a three part interview with researcher Pete Hubbard regarding his exploration of the Father Hubbard collection held in Archives & Special Collections. You can find all three parts with the tag Pete Hubbard Interview 2019. On Lessons and Core Values On this last section of the interview, we discuss […]
This is the second part of a three part interview with researcher Pete Hubbard regarding his exploration of the Father Hubbard collection held in Archives & Special Collections. Part I is available online and you can find all three parts with the tag Pete Hubbard Interview 2019. On Spirituality Returning to the interview with Pete […]
On March 19th, 1851, Santa Clara University was founded. In celebration of this date, exactly 168 years later, the University has announced that their search for a new president has come to an end. The Board of Trustees has elected the Reverend Kevin O’Brien, S.J., to serve as Santa Clara’s 29thpresident. This announcement warrants a […]
Archives & Special Collections is lucky to say we are the home to the Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J. papers. This collection is open for research and has attracted a number of interesting researchers, one being Pete Hubbard–of no apparent relation to Father Hubbard–so we sat down with him to discuss the impressive array of films, […]
As I sorted through a pile of paperwork that dated back to the 1700s, I couldn’t help but wonder where the single piece of information that I was so diligently searching for could be located. The search was so challenging that I started to think I would only find this information when I was searching […]
On November 16 this Fall, we recognize the 29th anniversary of the death of Reverend Ignacio Ellacuría — an honorable date in our university’s history. On this day in 1989, Ellacuría, five other Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter were murdered execution-style by an elite US-trained squadron of the Salvadoran Army during the end of […]
This is Santa Clara University, a Jesuit institution of higher ed that was founded on the site of Mission Santa Clara, which was run by Franciscans. There must have been plenty of holy men around these parts, right? Well, imagine witnessing a priest praying so hard he levitated. Imagine hearing your brother say he saw […]
This is the first post on the new blog of University Library Archives & Special Collections here at Santa Clara University. We decided to name the blog Arthur’s Attic after our most formidable archivist, Fr. Arthur Spearman. Just as the Smithsonian has been described as “the Nation’s attic,” so too can SCU archives be called […]
