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Exhibitions History

A map showing the Americas and a constellation over them

Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas

November 2020 - August 2021
Native Americans of present-day Mexico dance around two drummers

Picturing the Past: Indigenous Expressions in Colonial Mexico

Spring 2020
detail of "Cuevas de los siete linajes que poblaron en México y alrededor dél" from the Tovar Codex

Paper Worlds of Native Voices

Fall 2019-Winter 2020
Printed fold-out map shows topography of Colombia in great detail. Includes decorative cartouche, illustration of two naked people sitting facing each other, and scales.

200 Years of Colombian Independence

image of an open book with a colorful image of insects on a tropical plant and printed text

By a Lady: Women and Natural History in the Americas, 1650-1830

September 2019
A view of the Strait of Magellan from the Agnese Atlas

Gateway to a New World

July-October 2019
a Mohawk man teaches children in a schoolhouse

Controlling Colonial Impressions

May-October 2019
people sailing in a boat, shark in the bottom right corner

Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana

Spring 2019
map showing water, volcanoes, the sun, mountaintops, waterways and towns

Bodies of Water/Bodies at Work

Summer - Fall 2018
detail of a plan showing plantations and dwellings

Rooms of their Own: Dwellings of the Enslaved and the Free in the Early Americas

Spring 2018
sixteenth-century map of the world

Global Americana: The Wider Worlds of a Singular Collection

Fall 2017
colorful map of Caribbean islands with decorative cartouche

"So What'd I Miss?": Lafayette, Jefferson, and Hamilton at the JCB

Summer 2017
Black people work at a sugar mill with clouds and a palm tree outside

The Americas on Fire

Image depicting an angel hovering over Mary and Jesus

Women of the Page: Convent Culture in the Early Modern Spanish World

Spring 2017
agnese closeup

Air America

April - June, 2016
political cartoon depicting a funeral procession

Pamphlet Wars: Arguments on Paper from the Age of Revolutions

Fall 2015 - Winter 2016
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