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The JCB is delighted to announce fellowship awards for 2023-24. Fellows will be working on the extraordinary range of research projects that the JCB’s extraordinary collections support; from 16th century Indigenous language materials to the early 19th century Caribbean, across, around, and along the early...
June 20-22, 2024
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Submissions Deadline: August 15, 2023.
https://jcblibrary.org/archives-of-revolution
As we approach a series of 250th anniversaries, the histories of the American Founding have never been more hotly contested. In the United States, historians regard 2026...
In libraries, we assume that discovery and access are linked; if you make more materials discoverable via cataloging, for example, they are more accessible. In our case, creating more accessibility has led directly to ongoing, important discoveries about our collections.
In the course of...
We’re delighted to unveil today a new virtual exhibit, and we invite you to explore “Simon Bolivar, The Libertador: A Virtual Experience in the Bromsen Room" at jcblibrary.org/bolivar.
This exhibit was originally designed in 2000 to mark both an extraordinary gift from Maury Bromsen...
This Thursday, our Curator of Maps and Prints, Bertie Mandelblatt, will give a lecture in the Warburg Institute's Maps and Society series:
‘Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean’
The talk features an...
The earliest products of the printing press in the Americas form an extraordinarily rich subset of the JCB collection, and we can learn so much from them. Books printed in Mexico in the 16th century attest to the violence of political and religious transformations, epistemic...