Exhibitions History

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

sixteenth-century map of the world

Global Americana: The Wider Worlds of a Singular Collection

Fall 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

political cartoon depicting a funeral procession

Pamphlet Wars: Arguments on Paper from the Age of Revolutions

Fall 2015 - Winter 2016

men work inside a mine

Subterranean Worlds: Under the Earth in the Early Americas

Spring - Summer 2015

printers work a printing press

Printers' Devils and Printers' Delights: The Book in Spanish America

Fall 2014 - Winter 2015

view of college edifice

Off to College: Higher Education in the Americas, 1551-1825

Spring - Fall 2014

colored map of Saint-Domingue

The Other Revolution: Haiti, 1789-1804

Winter - Spring 2014

image of an opened book showing printed text on one page and an image of a man smoking tobacco on the opposite page

New World, New Eyes: America in Early Children's Books

Fall 2013

scene of sugar cane planting

Sugar and the Visual Imagination in the Atlantic World, circa 1600-1860

Fall 2013

hand-painted picture of peacock, vase and flowers

Neue Welt: Germans and the Americas, 1493-1830

Spring - Summer 2013