On this day in 1775, Jane Austen was born. That makes today her 243rd birthday! To celebrate her birthday and all the good times she has provided readers, I would like to draw your attention to a nifty little book we have in our Special Collections, Three Evening Prayers by Jane Austen. This thin volume was […]
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 […]
Earlier this year, Archives & Special Collections acquired a folder of documents from the Vice Provost of Student Life on the topic of the Women’s Center at Santa Clara University. The University of Santa Clara’s Women’s Center was founded in 1981 as an organization with the goal to inform members of SCU’s campus of the […]
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 […]
