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This Thursday, our Curator of Maps and Prints, Bertie Mandelblatt, will give a lecture in the Warburg Institute's Maps and Society series:

‘Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean’

The talk features an...

The JCB collection boasts an extraordinarily rich subset: the earliest products of the printing press in the Americas. These 16th-century Mexican imprints offer a window into a tumultuous era, revealing violent political and religious transformations, complex epistemic exchanges, diverse linguistic landscapes, the educational aspirations of...

On November 4-5, I participated in Mount Vernon’s annual George Washington seminar whose theme this year was “Mapping the American Revolution.” The symposium was the showcase for a series of exciting papers that showed the direction of current map history scholarship: a paper on the...

The John Carter Brown Library is excited to welcome Mark Armstrong as our new Rare Material Research and Reference Librarian. Mark will be joining the reading room staff to assist researchers in the use of the JCB’s collections.

Mark served previously as the Archivist and...

Every year, the JCB awards over forty fellowships to scholars engaged in research on the early Americas. During the pandemic, the JCB will award both residential and remote fellowship support. All applications are due January 9, 2023!

Learn more and apply at: https://jcblibrary.org/fellowships/opportunities

The Brown University Library and the John Carter Brown Library are pleased to announce Roger Shaw Williams as the inaugural Head of Libraries Conservation. Roger’s first day will be October 1, 2022.

Reporting jointly to Michelle Venditelli, the Director of Collections Care for Brown University...