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While a group of Spanish-speaking scholars from around the globe were in deep research mode at the Library this summer, several had the idea to put the Library’s oft-stated commitment to multi-lingual research, collaboration, and discussion to the test. The result was “Diálogos,” a new series...
The staff and scholarly community of the John Carter Brown Library stand with the Brazilian people and all those who believe in the importance of history in the wake of the September 2, 2018 fire at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro. As an...
Kudos to former JCB Fellow Martin Nesvig on the publication of Promiscuous Power (University of Texas Press, 2018), a “rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories from the archives.” Through a case study of local agents in the province of Michoacán in western Mexico, Nesvig...
At the 2018 New York Book Fair, the JCB purchased an intriguing little blue pamphlet: an 1807 almanac printed in Saint-Pierre, Martinique. This pocket almanac is exactly the kind of everyday printed work that would have been in the possession of merchants in early 19...
After the launch of a new fundraising initiative to support the Library’s collaborations with institutions and researchers in Mexico, JCB staff and fellows promoted the Library’s digital work and ongoing collaborations in the former Aztec capital. At the June 2018 Digital Humanities Conference in Mexico...
In collaboration with the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, the JCB welcomed a spectacular group of scholars of slavery to Providence in June 2018. With panel topics ranging from kidnapping and print-culture to medicine and indigenous slavery, participants came together in an...