28 Curators for a Single Exhibition? Welcome to Global Americana!

In the summer of 2017, the JCB invited scholars from around the world to collectively curate an array of our materials that speak to the global dimensions of a collection focused around the Americas. Leveraging our institutional partnership with the LAGLOBAL research network at the University of London and working with researchers at the Library, our Global Americana exhibition takes viewers on a journey to explore the history of the Americas in a global frame. The effort reflects how research carried out by the JCB’s community of scholars expands beyond geographical divisions that frequently separated regions and spaces in historical scholarship.