Interesting. Fun fact: the Huntington has a Magnalia that belonged to Samuel Taylor Coleridge—with a little mss poem inside dissing Cotton lol
18.07.2025 20:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wow! Any IT marginalia going on in there???
18.07.2025 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
#bookhistory #C19
02.06.2025 20:42 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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Leaving this without comment.
02.04.2025 13:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
24.03.2025 16:42 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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We’ll be here!
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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.
12.03.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
AAS Catalog Record
Catalog record with that info: catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdin...
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27.02.2025 23:21 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society.
Link with more info in comments.
27.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
AAS Catalog Record
That’s the one and only M.A. Gannon, performing in the role of “Little Pickle” c.a. 1843!
catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdin...
23.01.2025 17:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
Link in comments.
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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
13.12.2024 20:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Because it’s a bad painting!
13.12.2024 20:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I just love how this Increase Mather portrait is cordoned off like it’s a crime scene
13.12.2024 19:35 — 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
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.
Link in comments.
12.12.2024 16:41 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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
20.11.2024 15:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
KSPC Claremont Colleges radio: briefly late 1990s primarily experimental/noise/free jazz/metal
12.11.2024 20:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next week: AAS virtual book talk featuring Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. 11/21 at 4pm EST. Link to register in comments
11.11.2024 17:58 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print | American Antiquarian Society
Don’t miss out! Next Monday, July 15, Joseph Rezek gives the Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture on “Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print” at the American Antiquarian Society.
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9400
12.07.2024 20:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PhD Candidate at Clark University. US history of guns, consumer culture, and American Identity. Posts are my own to my parents' disappointment.
Bostonian / Professor of English / C19 Americanist / Author of Atlantic Citizens / Co-Editor of Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies
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Asst. Prof of History. ACLS Research Fellow (2025) / Incoming Omohundro Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (2026). Historian of the Caribbean and Atlantic World. Social Media for Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association.
Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
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Interested in the history of children's books illustration but you can talk to me about books and libraries in general too! Special Collections Reading Room Coordinator @thejohnrylands and PhD candidate researching book exhibitions.
art nuisance, mean little dyke, phd student. I do stuff on memory, haunting, colonialism, whiteness, horror and visual culture. Uncomfortable Art Tours (2017-20), The Whole Picture (2020), Historical Friction (2020-)
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Ph.D. candidate at Wuhan University, studying 19th-century US history,slavery, and Civil War; Visiting Research Fellow of Brown Graduate School and Graduate Fellow of Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Historian of the 18th Century Atlantic World. PhD from USC. Angelino by way of Baltimore. TCM nerd. Mother of cats. Family scapegoat. Eternal Orioles optimist & pragmatic progressive.
Associate Professor of American Literature, Southern Methodist University
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American Studies PhD and folklorist. Southerner in New England. I like people, places, and things. And cheese. Probably thinking about Mr. Peanut.
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Excited about all things early American and their significance for the present.
Provost @ Coll of the Holy Cross ; early modernist ; working on free speech in the digital age. #avfc
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Black dogs, orange cats, and manuscripts. Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
