Exhibits and Publications
Current Exhibit:
Medical Missions Around the World: Images and Documents from the Day Missions Collection
This exhibit includes manuscript and published materials from the Divinity Library's Day Missions Collection that document the impact of Western missionaries on the spread of Western medical treatment and training around the world. The cases in the rotunda area focus on four areas in which medical missions had notable impact: infrastructure and the introduction of technology, public health initiatives, the treatment of leprosy, and the role of women in medicine. One case in the Day Missions Reading Room highlights the papers of medical missionaries Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan while the other focuses on the Library's published holdings.
Online Versions of Past Exhibits
Yale Divinity School Milestones 1822-20122012 marks the 190th anniversary of the establishment of the Yale Divinity School in 1822, as well as the 80th anniversary of the Divinity School's move to its present campus at 409 Prospect Street. This exhibit documents some of the early faculty members of the Divinity School, its first campus in central New Haven and the development of the new campus, and the deans who have served the School over the decades.
Christianity in Nepal - Documentation from the Day Missions Collection
This exhibit features materials from the archives of the United Mission to Nepal , the International Nepal Fellowship , and the Nepal Church History Project . These collections, received by the Divinity Library in 2008, document the opening of Nepal to Christian organizations in the early 1950s and their programs in the areas of health services, education, rural development, and industrial development .
Christian Responses to Charles Darwin, 1870-1900
This exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth focuses on Christian responses to Darwin shortly after the publication of The Origin of Species . Communications from the Field: Missionary Postcards from Africa The images provided by missionary postcards provide a glimpse into the Christian missionary enterprise and its impact on society. They illustrate the customs, methods, and technology disseminated by the missionaries, provide depictions of indigenous life, and shed light on the culture of the missionary enterprise in the early 20th century. Early African American Missionaries Powerpoint presentation. From Psalm Book to Hymnal: Selections from the Lowell Mason Collection Excerpts from an exhibit at the Yale Divinity School Library held January 18-March 30, 2000. The Centennial of the Boxer Rebellion in China Photographs and documents from the collections of the Yale Divinity School Library that illustrate the impact of the Boxer Rebellion on the missionary movement in China. Victorian Missionary Periodicals Excerpts from an exhibit at the Yale Divinity School Library held September 15, 1999 - January 15, 2000.Occasional Publications
- No. 22: The Other Side of the Jordan: Yale Divinity Library Ten-Year Report by Paul F. Stuehrenberg
- No. 21: From "the poor heathen" to "the glory and honour of all nations": Vocabularies of Race and Custom in Protestant Missions , 1844-1928 by Brian Stanley
- No. 20: Capturing the Image: African Missionary Photography as Enslavement and Liberation by T. Jack Thompson
- No. 19: St. Patrick and Bernard Mizeki: Missionary Saints and the Creation of Christian Communities by Dana L. Robert
- No. 18: In Search of Moslems in China: the Story of a Journey through Northwest China, April 30-July 2, 1936 , by Claude L. Pickens, Jr.
- No. 17: Not the Bloom but the Root: Conversion and its Consequences in Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missionary Discourse by Jonathan J. Bonk
- No. 16: Mission Dilemmas : Bride Price, Minor Marriage, Concubinage, Infanticide, and Education of Women by Jessie G. Lutz
- No. 15: Bulldozers on the Quad: Yale Divinity School Library ten year report by Paul F. Stuehrenberg
- No. 14: Ts'ai Yung-ch'un's Life and Work: Fully Chinese and Fully Christian by Hugh Barbour
- No. 13: Christian Mission and Islamic Studies: Beyond Antithesis by David A. Kerr
- No. 12: Robert Lowry Calhoun as Historian of Doctrine by George A. Lindbeck; with an appendix on Theology at Yale (1998)
- No. 11: Glimpses of Canton: the Diary of Elijah C. Bridgman, 1834-1838 (1998)
- No. 10: The American Revolution and the Roots of Mission in Africa: an essay on antislavery and antistructure by Lamin Sanneh. (1997)
- No. 9: American Missionary Eyewitnesses to the Nanking Massacre, 1937-1938 edited by Martha Lund Smalley ; preface by Tien- wei Wu; introduction by Beatrice S. Bartlett. (1997)
- No. 8: A History of the Expansion of Christianity Reconsidered: the Legacy of George E. Day by Andrew F. Walls. (1996)
- No. 7: Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections at the Yale Divinity School Library compiled by Martha Lund Smalley. (1995, Revised edition 1998)
- No. 6: Women's Role in the History of the World Student Christian Federation, 1895-1945 by Johanna M. Selles. (1995)
- No. 5: Communications from the Field : Missionary Postcards from Africa edited by Martha Lund Smalley (1994, Revised edition 2006)
- No. 4: Eli Smith and the Arabic Bible by Margaret R. Leavy. (1993)
- No. 3: The Legacy of John R. Mott by Martha Lund Smalley. (1993)
- No. 2: The Day Missions Library Centennial Volume by Stephen L. Peterson, Paul F. Stuehrenberg, Martha Lund Smalley
- No. 1: A Library Worthy of the School : a History of the Yale Divinity School Library Collections by Paul F. Stuehrenberg. (Revised edition 1994)
For more information, please contact Martha.Smalley@yale.edu
