Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) welcomes students, educators, and learners of all kinds for communal exploration and study. If you would like to partner with us on our outreach activities or learn more about TUSC programming, please contact specialcollections@tulane.edu.
For directions and hours, please see our Visitor Information page.
"My Favorite Things: Selections by Tulane University Special Collections Staff"
Opening March, 2025
For more information contact:
Kevin Williams, Coordinator for Exhibits & Outreach,
Tulane University Special Collections
(504) 247-1836
kevinw@tulane.edu
Please join us for these upcoming events!
In the Archives: Researching and Learning with Primary Source Materials about New Orleans
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Louis Prima Room (room 306) in Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St.
Tulane University
This hands-on introduction to archives allows attendees to engage with holdings from the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a unit of Tulane University Special Collections.
Learn about what archives are, how they're interesting and can benefit you, and why archives about New Orleans music and culture are important. Led by Melissa A. Weber, Hogan Archive curator.
This workshop is open to both the Tulane University community and the general public. Students are encouraged to attend. Capacity: 20 attendees.
For more information, email mweber3@tulane.edu.
Recent exhibitions include “I Shall Not Be Moved”: Black Student Life at Tulane, 1963-2023 (April - December 2023); Absolutely Unpredictable: Anne Rice in the City of Transgression (October 2022 - February 2023); Music IS the Scene": Jazz Fest's First Decade, 1970-1979 (March - May 2022); Captive Voices: Hearing, Seeing, and Imagining Angola Prison, launched as a complement to the 2019 Tulane Reading Project selection, Vengeance by Zachary Lazar; and Proteus 1892, Teunisson 1902, and Louis Armstrong 1949: Selections from the Carnival Holdings.
View highlights from the following recent exhibitions on the Tulane Libraries YouTube channel:
- "Music IS the Scene”: Jazz Fest’s First Decade, 1970-1979 (2022)
- Where We Stand: Zines from New Orleans (2020)
- Proteus 1892, Teunisson 1902, and Louis Armstrong 1949: Selections from the Carnival Holdings (2019)
- The Laurel Valley Plantation Photographs of Philip M. Denman (2018)
- Cook Dat! A Celebration of New Orleans Cuisine (2018)
TUSC staff, as well as many Tulane students, have created several digital exhibitions that feature TUSC collections. Some highlights are linked here; to view all of the TUSC digital exhibitions, please visit the Tulane Libraries portal for online exhibitions.
- “Music IS the Scene”: Jazz Fest’s First Decade, 1970-1979
- Books Through Their Pages
- William Faulkner’s New Orleans
- The Treasures of Tulane
- Riverboats and Jazz
- Education: Celebrating the Artistic, Academic, Athletic, and Administrative Achievements of the Women of Tulane University
- Louisiana Women’s Collection: A History of Political Activism
- The Organic Modernism of Albert C. Ledner
- The Extraordinary Life of Natalie Scott
Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC) welcomes loan requests from institutions with established exhibition programs and professional staff qualified to handle the materials requested. Loan requests are judged on their own merits and the final decision to loan an item is made on a case-by-case basis. TUSC will provide an agreement for approved loans and cannot sign agreements from a borrowing institution. For more information about our loan program, please email Kevin Williams, Coordinator for Exhibits & Outreach, Tulane University Special Collections, kevinw@tulane.edu.