As Special Collections at Catholic University celebrates our three hundredth blog post and eleven years with The Archivist’s Nook we reflect upon how we got here and offer a few staff favorites from across the spectrum of our holdings of university records, museum objects, rare books, and American Catholic History manuscript collections. Eleven years ago, Read More

March 2-6, 2026 is the 15th annual Open Education Week! Open Education is a movement to make learning free, accessible, and flexible for everyone. The goal is to remove barriers to high quality learning and resources through sharing, adapting, and building upon the work that others have done. Open Education Week serves as a global Read More

Humanity is heading back to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis missions, so let’s take this opportunity to look back at how we’ve studied and adventured to the Moon in the past. Apollo and Artemis are twins in Greek mythology, so the name Artemis was chosen because these missions are building on the original knowledge that Read More

Spring break is just around the corner, time to relax and recharge after this long, cold winter. What better way to do that than go on a vacation. And while Mullen Library can’t take you physically, we have curated a selection of books that will Take Your Brain on Vacation! These titles have been chosen Read More

February 24 is the birthday of noted Austrian born physicist and humanitarian, Dr. Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld (1892-1978), who was also an esteemed professor at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C. from 1936-1968. Having arrived in the United States in 1926 to teach at Johns Hopkins University, Herzfeld was not a refugee from Read More

Happy Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week! This year Fair Use Week runs from February 23rd to February 27th. Fair use permits limited use of copyrighted material without obtaining permission from the copyright holder when the use serves purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. By allowing for the use of copyrighted materials under Read More

Due to the weather and road conditions in the area, The Catholic University of America will delay opening on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026 until 11:00 a.m.

Today when most people think of Mardi Gras in New Orleans they think of big parades and parties with plastic beads and cheap masks. It turns out that there is an entirely different side to Mardi Gras where after the parade, guests attend lavish balls to honor the chosen king and queen of carnival. The Read More