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          The JCB and the Lab have a shared goal of bringing new readers to the archive, especially those it has historically excluded, and to reimagine the archive as a community trust with a binding relationship of shared responsibility. In this...

The inner lives, the personalities, histories, and culture of African and African-descended people were obscured and deemed illegitimate and irrelevant in the surviving records. And yet there is an inherent tension inscribed in these dusty old White-created documents, for they all refer to her resistance. ...

Dear JCB community,

The Internet Archive is currently down.

We currently do not have a date for when it will be recovered. 

You can find the JCB digital collection on Americana (americana.jcblibrary.org). 

We will keep you posted on any new developments as we become aware of them.

How to explore the embodied experience of living at sea (and learning to sail), when there were such glaring structural differences in the everyday lives of the people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean?

I selected the collection items for the October 2024 JCB exhibition, “Learning...

Have you ever pulled up a video of a fireplace on your laptop to let it crackle in the background while you work? Or perhaps you’ve seen someone in a coffee shop do so? 

Over the past few years, many of us have discovered...

In the late 16th century, the era of mechanical reproduction of texts dawned in South America. When Antonio Ricardo’s first book-length product emerged from his press, the title page did more than announce his name–it proclaimed his pioneering status as the “first printer in these...