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2025

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Open Indigenous Community Research Night

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

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

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

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

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

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

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

2024

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

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

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

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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

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

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

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Found in Translation: Spanish American Colonial Sources for English Speakers