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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...
On the occasion of the annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair in early November 2018, the JCB had the pleasure of welcoming a number of rare book dealers from around the world for a library tour and show-and-tell of highlights from the collection. The visit...
Congratulations to two-time JCB fellow Christine M. DeLucia for the publication of Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (Yale University Press, 2018). King Philip’s war – one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European...