Past Exhibits

Visit the Thomas Bentley Rue Platinum and Golden Age Comic Book and Adventure Strip Archive, new to the Historic Collections in the Leonard Library. Thomas and his older brother Sonny Rue amassed and preserved comic books during the 1940s.

February 28-August 31, 2019, Monday-Friday, 1-5 pm. Leonard Library, Special Collections Reading Room 460. A Historic Collections exhibit.

In honor of World AIDS Day, the University Archives invites you to visit a display of selected materials from the campus-wide AIDS Coordinating Committee that developed SF State’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis beginning in 1985. Come explore how SF State exemplified its social justice mission in the classroom, on campus, and in the community with classes, workshops, peer-education programs, and events organized by the Committee and student groups.

Open November 30, 2018-January 31,...

Graphic artist Jos Sances and educator Bill Morgan created this wonderful series of drawings and biographies as a basic introduction to the labor movement in the United States. The panels are based on a larger set of “labor hero” trading cards, a selection of which are displayed in each case. Sances and Morgan chose working class leaders who were activists in unions as well as other justice movements in order to illustrate the strong connection between labor and progressive social change....