Category: Humanities

Black Drama
New collection of digital playscripts
Looking for digital copies of plays by Black authors? Black Drama (Third Edition) contains more than 1,700 scripts from playwrights from North America, English-speaking...

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Streaming media package of contemporary videos
Looking for short videos by leading artists and cultural thinkers on conversations in contemporary art, technology activism, and culture? The MIT Libraries now subscribes...

Clap When You Land: Collection Highlights
Check out these titles by Afro-Latinx and Dominican writers
The current Collection Highlights display at Hayden Library is inspired by the MIT Reads spring selection, Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo and...

authors@mit series returns
Talks by authors of new MIT Press publications
The MIT Press, the MIT Press Bookstore, and the MIT Libraries are delighted to announce the restart of the authors@mit series. authors@mit presents talks...

MIT Reads celebrates National Poetry Month
Check out staff picks and join us for our open mic
April is National Poetry Month, the most widely celebrated literary event in the world. MIT Reads is celebrating with an annual open mic on...

November is Native American Heritage Month
Celebrate now and always with works by indigenous creators
“MIT acknowledges Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of the land, and the enduring relationship that exists between them and their traditional territories....

Celebrating Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month
Check out these staff picks
National Latinx/Hispanic Heritage month is celebrated annually, from September 15 to October 15, to honor the culture, traditions, and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx...