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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...
The Musée du Nouveau Monde (New World Museum) in La Rochelle may seem an unlikely place to learn how a Brazilian-born, Portuguese-trained naturalist-turned-journalist conducted botanical espionage in the nascent United States. But in November 2018, Director and Librarian Neil Safier (shown beside a dramatic statue...
At its October 2018 meeting, the JCB Board of Governors honored one of its longstanding members with a recognition befitting his many years of service on the Board. The room formerly known as the “Photo studio" was renamed the Clinton I. Smullyan, Jr. Suite for...