Armstrong Browning Library & Museum
The Armstrong Browning Library & Museum is dedicated to the study of the lives and works of Victorian poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and houses the world’s largest collection of Browning material and other fine collections of rare 19th-century books, manuscripts, and works of art.
The next session of the Baylor Libraries Author Series will spotlight Dr. Melody V. Escobar and her book, “Revelations of Divine Care: Disability, Spirituality, and Mutual Flourishing.” Escobar will be interviewed by Dr. Devan Stahl, Associate Professor of Religion. The session will be held at Noon on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in the Schumacher Flex Commons of Moody Memorial Library and online via Zoom Webinar. This event is free, open to the public, and co-sponsored by the Baylor Center for Developmental Disabilities. A reception with light refreshments and a book signing will follow.
On Friday, April 11, at 3 p.m., the annual Browning Day celebration will feature Joseph Phelan, Ph.D., professor of nineteenth-century literature from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, for a lecture on Robert Browning’s poem, “Red Cotton Night-Cap Country” (1873). The event will take place in the Hankamer Treasure Room of Armstrong Browning Library & Museum and via Zoom Webinar. A reception in the Cox Reception Hall will follow. CAE Credit is available to Baylor students who attend in person.
On Monday, March 31, 2025, at 6 p.m. the Dean of University Libraries, Museums, and the Press will welcome Baylor alumnus Dr. Tyler B. Davis, to highlight his recent book, "God of the Whirlwind: Horror, Memory, and Story in Black Waco,” as a part of the Baylor Libraries Author Series. At the event, a panel including Davis, and three contributors of the book—Rev. Michael Babers, LaRue Dorsey, and Linda Lewis—will be interviewed by Dr. Stephen Sloan, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Oral History. The event will take place in the Mayborn Museum Theatre and via Zoom Webinar. A reception with refreshments and a book signing will follow.
On Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. in the Treasure Room of Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library & Museum and via Zoom Webinar, Dr. Wallace Daniel, Distinguished Professor of History, Mercer University, and Emeritus Professor of History, Baylor University, will present the 2025 Keston Spring Lecture, “Speaking Truth to Power: The Revolt of a Russian Priest.” Following his presentation, Daniel will converse with Dr. Stephen Sloan, Baylor Professor of History & Director of the Institute for Oral History. The conversation will be followed by Q&A, a reception with refreshments, and a book signing for Daniel’s latest release, “Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia” (NIU/Cornell University Press, 2024).