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Events Archive

2026

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Journalism and History When History Is News: A Conversation with Jennifer Schuessler

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Journalism and History When History Is News: A Conversation with John Dickerson

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Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States (A talk by Michelle Craig McDonald)

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Journalism and History When History Is News: A Conversation with Jamelle Bouie

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

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1776 Across the Americas: A Hemispheric History from the Collections of the John Carter Brown Library

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Elemental Exhibit Farewell

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Dr. Joseph Adelman on Common Sense

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

2025

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CANCELLED: The Haitian Revolution and Its Material Afterlives

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

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JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

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2025 Annual Meeting of the Southwest Seminar

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Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

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Rhode to Independence Professional Development Workshop

The image shows the cover of Jordan B. Smith's book, The Invention of Rum.

JCB Reads: Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum: Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity