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2025

The image shows the cover of Joyce Chaplin's book The Franklin Stove.

JCB Reads: Joyce Chaplin on The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution

The image is a photograph of Professor Gordon S. Wood.

Creation of the American Republic: A Conversation with Gordon S. Wood

The image shows the cover of the book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic.

JCB Reads: Chloe Ireton on Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

The image contains the text "Critical Archives Reading Group" and a photo of a card catalog.

Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

The image shows the cover of Tara Bynum's book Reading Pleasures.

JCB Reads: Tara Bynum on Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America

The image is a headshot of Professor Slauter.

A Portable History of the Pocket Constitution: An Illustrated Lecture by Prof. Eric Slauter of the University of Chicago

The image contains the text "Critical Archives Reading Group" and a photo of a card catalog.

Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

2024

The image contains flowers and leaves, the JCB logo, and the text "Q and A Session / John Carter Brown Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities/ New Date!"

Q&A Session: John Carter Brown Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities

The image is the book cover of Seth Rockman's book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. It depicts a weaving and two shovels.

Book Event: Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman (Brown University)

The image contains the words "Critical Archives Reading Group" and a photo of a card catalog.

Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

The image shows the cover of the book Aztec Latin by Andrew Laird, which features a map on the cover.

Book Event: Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico by Andrew Laird (Brown University)

Photograph of writer David Grann.

EX LIBRIS: David Grann

The poster contains an image of several people, presumably enslaved people, in a small boat headed towards a ship and the title of the keynote lecture.

Scientiae Conference Keynote Lecture: "Bloody Numbers: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Human Body in the Early Iberian Atlantic"

The image shows a card catalogue and the words "Critical Archives Reading Group."

Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

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Found in Translation: Spanish American Colonial Sources for English Speakers

The image contains the title of the lecture, Divided Nations: Documenting Civil War in 1620s Potosí, and the name and image of the speaker (Kris Lane, Tulane University). There is also an image from the JCB collection of Potosí.

Divided Nations: Documenting Civil War in 1620s Potosí