This list includes digital exhibits and resources that highlight, explore, or feature items from the collections of Newcomb Archives. Unless noted, the staff of Newcomb Archives are not responsible for maintaining these websites.
“Deb Margolin’s Performance Composition: Writing and Embodying,” investigates Deb Margolin’s process of performance composition as a playwright, actor, and teacher, working mostly in the Northeastern United States. This exhibit, curated by Tulane graduate student Blair Reynolds (MA, English), uses materials from the Deb Margolin papers at the Newcomb Archives of Tulane University, which she donated in August of 2018 after having participated in the Zale-Kimmerling Writer in Residence program in the 1990s.
“Mary Gehman’s Feminist Ephemera: Violence Against Women,” examines the history of violence against women in New Orleans in the late 20th century. This exhibit, curated by Tulane student Zoe Miller, draws on materials from the Feminist Ephemera series of the Mary Gehman papers, housed at the Newcomb Archives.
The Women in Power in the Arts exhibit, curated by Howard-Tilton Memorial Library staff members lisa hooper & Samantha Miker, was created in 2019 to honor Black History Month and Women’s History Month (February and March), presents a small sampling of some of the great Black women and women of color trailblazers in the arts. The women presented here were selected in part to accommodate a physical exhibit space and in part relative to the availability of primary and secondary research material by and about them at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Amistad Research Center, and the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Collection.
This exhibit, curated by Tulane University Archivist Ann Case, was created in conjunction with the Nola4Women exhibition initiative “Builders and Rebuilders,” which featured 45 exhibits across New Orleans highlighting the prominent role women play in making the city such a special place.
This website, created by Tulane University student Ariana Anhalt, compiles archival documentation of social action taken against sexual violence towards women on Tulane University’s campus. This project was supported by a Gender and Archives Diversity Research Fellowship grant from the Newcomb Archives.
This website was created by Dr. Susan Tucker, retired Curator of Books and Records at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women (NCCROW), and Dr. Beth Willinger, retired Executive Director of NCCROW, to provide direct access to more than 130 of Josephine Louise Newcomb’s letters and indirect access to 350 more, thus encouraging others to interpret Newcomb’s life and contributions more fully and with greater fidelity to her own vision.
“L’dor v’dor” is Hebrew for “from generation to generation,” the traditional Jewish imperative to pass learning and values to one’s progeny. This online exhibit accompanied a physical exhibit that was curated in conjunction with the Nola4Women initiative “Builders and Rebuilders,” which featured 45 exhibits across New Orleans highlighting the prominent role women play in making the city such a special place. The exhibit explores how Jewish women of New Orleans worked in a vibrant mix of causes, connections, and intergenerational mentoring to respond to the needs of the greater community.
