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[UPDATE post-conservation]
A longtime friend and former Governor of the JCB, France Gagnon Pratte, has made a generous gift toward the conservation of the first volume of La cosmographie vniuerselle d'André Theuet, a book printed in Paris in 1575. Thevet was a Franciscan monk...
Elizabeth Heath, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College-CUNY, and a 2016-2017 Virginia and Jean R. Perrette Fellow, traces layers of colonial contact across the French Atlantic in her project "Visualizing Colonial France in the Eighteenth Century: Using Digital Humanities to Map a New Approach to...
Congratulations to Tatiana Seijas (former R. David Parsons Fellow) and Jake Frederick (former JCB Associates Fellow) on the publication of their new book, Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics: The Money that Made Mexico and the United States.
Seijas explained how the concept of the...
The JCB’s motto for more than a century has been “Speak to the Past, and It Shall Teach Thee,” but we at the JCB look to the future as well. As it happens, just this past week we passed a landmark – our 10,000th digitized...
Sarah Crabtree, Assistant Professor of History at San Francisco State University, spent five months researching as a JCB Fellow funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her project Whaler, Traitor, Coward, Spy!: William Rotch, the Quaker Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism tells the...
During Brown's inaugural winter session in January 2017, JCB Director and Librarian Neil Safier (and Associate Professor of History) taught an undergraduate course titled Maps and Empires: A Journey through the Cartographic Collection of the John Carter Brown Library.
Drawing on recent scholarship in...