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The Declaration of Independence is one of the world's most important articulations of the basis for democratic government, and yet we know less about it than we should. Especially as we head toward 2026 and the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States...
A visit from Gregory Doran, Artistic Director Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, generated a buzz at the John Carter Brown Library (JCB) on Thursday, September 20. Doran had come to Brown as part of his effort to personally view as many of the Shakespeare...
The JCB invites tribal communities and community members to apply to its Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities. This fellowship supports community-prioritized and community-based research that would benefit from research time in the JCB’s collections, that could be undertaken, for example, by Native or Indigenous...
Dr. Granen's speech is reproduced here as just the text, but a PDF of the beautiful book she printed is also available below.
The John Carter Brown Library: An Inspiration
In my imagination, the JCB was a Mount Olympus, a dwelling place for the most...
The JCB is delighted to announce fellowship awards for 2023-24. Fellows will be working on the extraordinary range of research projects that the JCB’s extraordinary collections support; from 16th century Indigenous language materials to the early 19th century Caribbean, across, around, and along the early...
June 20-22, 2024
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Submissions Deadline: August 31, 2023.
https://jcblibrary.org/archives-of-revolution
As we approach a series of 250th anniversaries, the histories of the American Founding have never been more hotly contested. In the United States, historians regard 2026...