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Tara A. Bynum, Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Hampshire College and the 2018-2019 Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellow, spent her two-month fellowship refining Reading Pleasures, her forthcoming manuscript from U of Illinois Press. Reading Pleasures "invites scholars, students, and anyone else...
In the revolutionary spring of 1789, France and its colonies were undergoing separate although intertwined political and economic crises, and the JCB just purchased a key document that sheds light on the rapid development of one of these crises. Because of its recent explosive growth...
The connections between the JCB and Mexico extend at least as far back as 1846, the year that saw John Carter Brown make several important purchases that related directly to the complex and colorful history of one of Spain’s most important colonies in the Americas...
Fulfilling a longstanding desire to visit one of the most important communities connected to the Library’s peerless collections of indigenous language materials, JCB Board Members accepted the generous invitation of former JCB researcher María Isabel Grañén Porrúa and the Alfredo Harp Helú Foundation to visit...
In late January 2019, the JCB joined several eminent Mexican institutions for a special event dedicated to exploring astronomical images across the Americas. The events began at the world-renowned Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City’s Parque de Chapultepec, showcasing a project by Mexican artist...
In 1685, John Eliot published an Algonquian translation of a popular English religious text, Lewis Bayly’s The Practice of Piety (London, 1613). This translation illuminates Eliot’s reliance upon medical knowledge to convert southern New England Algonquians. The Practice of Piety was a well-known, practical guide...