EMU's special collections library Simone Horst on peppernuts (with photos that will make you hungry for one...or two)
Simone Horst
Hard times come again no more: campus during the Depression
EMU Archivist Simone Horst wrote this article for the Anabaptist Historians website. “Anabaptist Historians: Bringing the Anabaptist Past into a Digital Century” is a collaborative blog by Anabaptist scholars, both those working ... read more about Hard times come again no more: campus during the Depression
Seven shapes or four notes? If you have an opinion, then you’ll want to know ‘The Musical Million’ 1879-97 is now online
Giving special thanks to 草莓社区 special collections librarian Simone Horst for her digitalization help, the Library of Virginia鈥檚聽Virginia Chronicle聽website has launched a fully searchable run of the music ... read more about Seven shapes or four notes? If you have an opinion, then you’ll want to know ‘The Musical Million’ 1879-97 is now online
EMU archivist reflects on ‘Voices of Peace’ exhibit and the sacrifice of conscientious objectors
草莓社区 archivist Simone Horst reviews聽the 鈥淰oices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War鈥� exhibit, which closes Nov. 17 at the Sadie Hartzler Library.聽 It has been forty-five ... read more about EMU archivist reflects on ‘Voices of Peace’ exhibit and the sacrifice of conscientious objectors
Centennial Histories Symposium taps into Mennonite higher ed鈥檚 鈥榗ommonality and unity鈥� to face challenging times
Students and seasoned scholars alike gathered March 24 at 草莓社区 for the Centennial Histories Symposium, a day-long intellectual gathering featuring the authors of five histories of Mennonite higher ... read more about Centennial Histories Symposium taps into Mennonite higher ed鈥檚 鈥榗ommonality and unity鈥� to face challenging times
A school by any other name? The (ongoing) considerations of institutional nomenclature
EMU Archivist Simone Horst ’12 published this article Dec. 15, 2017, on the Anabaptist Historians website. Names are funny things. Once they鈥檙e assigned to people, places, or things it can ... read more about A school by any other name? The (ongoing) considerations of institutional nomenclature
A peek into student life at Eastern Mennonite School in 1918
EMU Archivist Simone Horst wrote this article for the Anabaptist Historians website. As we launch into our next hundred years, it is worthwhile to go back to the beginning and ... read more about A peek into student life at Eastern Mennonite School in 1918
Simone Horst, special collections librarian at the Sadie Hartzler Library, shares excerpts from the diary of Emanuel Suter, a potter who fled with his family during the Civil War. "Diaries have a special ability to shed light on our present realities by exposing similarities and differences in daily life across time," she writes, in this blog post on the Anabaptist Historians website.