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Verstille's Southern Cookery book cover
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  • Rashelle M Nagar
Beyond the Recipes
Curator JJ Jacobson's guest lecture in undergraduate seminar Race and Culture in the American South (History 262/AmCult 263) introduces students to Special Collection materials at U-M while also demonstrating how to use cookbooks as primary sources.
Binding of The Sleeping Beauty
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  • Ikumi Eileen Crocoll
Fun with Fairy Tales: Students Get Acquainted with Fantastical Children's Book Illustrations
The class, German 386 / Fairy Tales, is devoted primarily to the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm just over 200 years ago, while also exploring the structural elements of fairy tales and the stories’ ongoing influence in contemporary society. Mary Gell brought her class of 32 students to the Special Collections Library in June to give students a sense of the role illustrations have played in the reception and popularization of fairy tales.