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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...
The Rio de la Plata region was one of the most contested areas in the Atlantic World during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Both Spain and Portugal claimed the area and it was an area of interest to the British. Montevideo–the best port and...
In 1718 Joseph-François Lafitau claimed to have discovered ginseng in Canada. Working in the mission to the Mohawk at Kahnawá:ke/Sault Saint Louis between 1712 and 1717, the Jesuit missionary had first heard of the plant that he would try to name Aureliana canadenis (a name...