WashU Libraries archives Riverfront Times
The Riverfront Times print editions from 1977–2013 are now available to researchers at WashU Libraries’ Department of Special Collections. WashU curators undertook the project to ensure a valuable local history resource is preserved and usable by researchers.
The Last American Road Trip
A memoir
Part memoir, part political history, “The Last American Road Trip” is one mother’s promise to her children that their country will be there for them in the future ― even though at times she struggles to believe it herself.
The Acid Queen
The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
The definitive portrait of Rosemary Woodruff Leary. Susannah Cahalan, AB ’07, reclaims her narrative and voice from those who dismissed her. Page-turning, revelatory, and utterly compelling, the book shines an overdue spotlight on a pioneering psychedelic seeker.
Lipstick
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Forget your mother’s tube of Revlon. Lipstick today is as messy—and fascinating—as changing attitudes towards femininity. Mining the experience of women across culture, class, and generation, this book tosses out expired ideas about beauty and power like so […]
Taco
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the […]
Students produce film at Prague’s prestigious FAMU
As study-abroad students at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), WashU seniors Marielle Morrow and Cole Bernstein wrote, directed and edited “A Bird in the Field.” The movie screens at the St. Louis International Film Festival Nov. 15.
Meet WashU’s Lego professor, a political scientist using animation to teach civics
Dan Butler, a political scientist in Arts & Sciences, brings civic lessons to life through Lego bricks. He created a series of stop-motion videos that turn pop culture into lessons on the U.S. government for high school students.
‘Really, really wrong’
A mysterious plant revives a Skid Row flower shop. But with success come gruesome appetites. Welcome to “Little Shop of Horrors.” WashU’s Performing Arts Department will present the celebrated musical in Edison Theatre Oct. 24 to Nov. 2.
WashU and Cinema St. Louis launch ‘Art House Cinema’ series
Nearly a dozen classic international films will be screened at the Hi-Pointe Theatre this fall. The series, “Art House Cinema, 1945-2000,” is inspired by Todd Decker’s survey course “Art House Movie Music.”
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