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As the academic year drew to a close, we bade farewell to Dan Ruppel, who had been at the JCB since September working on his dissertation, “Probable Histories and Virtual Performances: Festival Books and the Performance of Historiography in Early Modern France.” The J.M. Stuart...
Andrés Reséndez, Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, delivered the 2017 Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture. The Other Slavery, which won the 2017 Bancroft Prize, examines...
A unique collection of nearly 300 books printed by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (ca. 1450-1515) represents the historical vestige of a time before John Carter Brown turned his sights to collecting Americana. Here, Isabel Thornton (Brown class of 2019) translates a passage from a...
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara discussed her book Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (NYU Press, 2016) as part of the Rhode Island Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project and a program series - centered around the transatlantic slave trade - by the...
[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...