The Collation

The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads Swahili Worlds in Globalism

A GWU undergraduate student shares their experience working at the Folger for their class project on Shakespeare and Ovid for an Art in the Age of Shakespeare course.

Lingua Latina Medica Accessabilis Facta, vel Febrem Habeo et Præscriptio Sola Campanæ Bovinæ Plus Est or Medical Latin Made Accessible, or I Have a Fever and the Only Prescription is More (of) Cow Bell. A look into John Ward’s Latin list, a glossary of the medical Latin terms used by the 17th century vicar in his diaries.

The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic

Senior Photography Associate William Davis shares his five favorite collection items in our new series: Folger Faves.

The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies: Legacies, Cultures, and Social Justice

Take a look at our top five Collation posts from 2025. Thanks for a great year!

Seventeenth century resonances in a twentieth century postcard sent from Jamaica.

“Do not seek pleasure in music and singing” and other advice for widows from an early 17th-century manuscript.

An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?

Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany