John Garcia

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

Slavery and the Making of the Early American Book

Folks in the U of Miami area—I’ll be giving a lecture on Tuesday, Sept 9 about Black participation in early American print shops, paper mills, and libraries at the Kislak Center.

Interesting. Fun fact: the Huntington has a Magnalia that belonged to Samuel Taylor Coleridge—with a little mss poem inside dissing Cotton lol

Wow! Any IT marginalia going on in there???

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Next week! Christopher Looby delivers the James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Register to attend in-person at AAS or virtually.
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Next Tuesday 4/15 is the deadline to apply for this summer’s CHAViC seminar on Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World. Don’t miss it!

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Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!

Next week! Virtual Book Talk featuring Ben Bascom’s Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early U.S. Thurs. March 27 at 2pm EST. Link in comments to register.

We’ll be here!

YouTube video by AmericanAntiquarian Summer Seminar Preview: CHAViC 2025

Preview of the AAS summer seminar on 19th-cent. American Photography. Applications due next month—and tuition scholarships are available for junior scholars.

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Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society.

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That’s the one and only M.A. Gannon, performing in the role of “Little Pickle” c.a. 1843!

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This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.

Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.

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No actually it’s just in storage at the library I work at. The painting is an early 20th century copy LOL

Because it’s a bad painting!

I just love how this Increase Mather portrait is cordoned off like it’s a crime scene

Call for Applications | The Jay I. Kislak Research Fellowship and Artist-in-Residence program Apply online by January 24, 2025

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Fellowship alert: apply for fellowships for scholars and artists to research in the Kislak Center at the University of Miami. Holdings in early Americas, Indigenous history, colonization and exploration, Latin America. Good people there.
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Worth reposting for new folks in my feed: this THURSDAY at 4pm est—register to watch Sara Johnson speak about her amazing work on slavery, colonialism, and the history of the book in the life of a French intellectual from the era of the Haitian Revolution. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9823

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