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The addition to Electronic Enlightenment of nearly 500 letters from the Beaumarchais correspondence is a significant event in eighteenth-century studies.

Have you ever sat down for a meal—maybe a holiday meal and had something you loved—maybe, pumpkin pie— but wondered how put the right ingredients together, threw them in the oven, and made something delicious? If anyone knows where to find the answer, it's Juli McCloone, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Library. Juli joins "creative:impact" host Deb Polich to talk about the history of food.

Postcards with images depicting life in Michigan in the early 20th century are part of a collection at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library. Researchers are inviting volunteers to help catalog the more than 60,000 postcards in its collection.

For the past 40 years, an Ann Arbor real estate broker gathered thousands of rare books in his Ann Arbor home. Now legally blind, he’s clearing out his shelves and making priceless donations to local libraries.

Michaela Rife writes about using the Chiura Obata to create an assignment as part of the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop.