Collection of primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825.
Providence, RI
Joined October 2009
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Presentation on The Constitution of American Colonialism from last spring at the John Carter Brown Library. It was a rich and generative visit with their faculty, students, and board members. Now available online, and much shorter than the original! m.youtube.com/watch?v=w741X9…
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Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellowship: Funding for work by academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830.
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2025
washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/…
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$20,000 Hodson Trust–John Carter Brown Library Fellowship includes housing and university privileges, open to filmmakers, novelists, creative and performing artists, deadline 2/1 @washcoll @WCStarrCenter @JCBLibrary washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/…
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Why should we visit libraries, and how have they stood the test of time?
Brown University History Professor and Librarian of the @JCBLibrary Karin Wulf explains how libraries continue to be essential spaces for connection and learning. #BrownCurious
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Today, 9/19 at 4PM — "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492," book talk with author @marcy_norton. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the @JCBLibrary. Learn more: events.brown.edu/john-carter…
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In Providence, more maps at the @JCBLibrary and, last but not least, the amazing « Archives of Revolution » conference! Chris Hodson & @ManuelCovo got to show us how the perks of translation for historical analysis and research, with the case of Péries’s manuscript – at Queens, NY
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Thank you @JCBLibrary for a wonderful conference! So many great ideas and exchanges between such amazing archivists and historians!
As we prepare to welcome our conference attendees to the second day of the Archives of Revolution conference, we are revisiting the blog post from Age of Revolutions by Emma Hart, Sean Quimby, and Karin Wulf. Enjoy!
ageofrevolutions.com/2023/03…
ALT Image of Sayles Hall, where the Archives of Revolution conference is being held at Brown University.
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Readers from all walks of life (and all l’ ages) at the @JCBLibrary – at Providence, RI
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Registration is now live for our conference with the @JCBLibrary, Archives of Revolution. Join us in Providence June 20-22! Register here:
eventbrite.com/e/archives-of…
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Archival shouting — @kawulf, director and librarian of the @JCBLibrary and Professor of History, penned this feature for @AHAhistorians's newsmagazine on "archival silence" and "archival shouting" in collections and institutions. historians.org/research-and-…
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George Wythe quits! Our friends at the @JCBLibrary have graciously loaned us an image of George Wythe's formal resignation as Professor of Law & Police at the College of William & Mary in 1789. Read about this document, here: lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia… #WytheWednesday
ALT George Wythe's resignation from the College of William & Mary, September 15, 1789. Original at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
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So excited that our conference is around the corner again! Time flies when you’re having FEEGI!
The registration link for our April 19-20 conference, hosted by our good friends @JCBLibrary, is below👇:
payment.brown.edu/C20460_ust…
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OPPORTUNITY: The @JCBLibrary & the Ruth J. Simmons Center at @BrownUniversity invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship focused on any area/theme of historical scholarship around African racial slavery, and/or Indigenous dispossession and slavery. jcblibrary.org/fellowships/o…
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OPPORTUNITY: The @JCBLibrary & the Ruth J. Simmons Center at @BrownUniversity invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship focused on any area/theme of historical scholarship around African racial slavery, and/or Indigenous dispossession and slavery. jcblibrary.org/fellowships/o…
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¿Te gustan los mapas antiguos? ¿Tienes interés en hacer una tesis doctoral en historia de la cartografía? Se ofrece contrato predoctoral #FPI en el proyecto nacional @MapWorks_ Marcos de mapeo y prácticas de territorialización en América (siglos XVI-XVIII) (PID2022-141020NA-I00)
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#OTD October 23, 1805, John Russell Bartlett was born in Providence. Bartlett was a founder of @pvdAth & @AmEthno, a librarian at @JCBLibrary, & Rhode Island's Secretary of State from 1855 to 1872. A prolific writer & archivist, he published multiple volumes of colonial records.
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está más lindo que sea LA AJOLOTE
¡y “juguete de agua” 💝!
“Hállase un cierto género de pez en las lagunas desta Nueva España, lo venden los indios en los tianguez […] comido provoca a lujuria”
📖Fco Hernández, “Cuatro libros de la naturaleza…” (🇲🇽1615)
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Thanks SO much to all of the participants and speakers at today’s OI Coffeehouse, “Fellowships in Vast Early America” —@MHS1791 @AmAntiquarian @JCBLibrary @TheHuntington -- great advice and great looks at what is available!
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At the John Carter Brown Library, physical and digital renovations are ushering in a new era of accessibility. bit.ly/3NZ2igH
