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The John Carter Brown Library aims to redefine its digital presence with a website that embodies its mission, leverages new and emerging technologies and web tools, and supports its diverse audiences.

We invite qualified firms to review the attached RFP and submit proposals by April...

On Friday, January 24, 2025, the John Carter Brown Library hosted an illustrated lecture by Professor Eric Slauter (University of Chicago) followed by a conversation with Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore. We introduced 2026 and Beyond at the JCB, a multi-year...

          The JCB and the Lab have a shared goal of bringing new readers to the archive, especially those it has historically excluded, and to reimagine the archive as a community trust with a binding relationship of shared responsibility. In this...

The inner lives, the personalities, histories, and culture of African and African-descended people were obscured and deemed illegitimate and irrelevant in the surviving records. And yet there is an inherent tension inscribed in these dusty old White-created documents, for they all refer to her resistance. ...

Dear JCB community,

The Internet Archive is currently down.

We currently do not have a date for when it will be recovered. 

You can find the JCB digital collection on Americana (americana.jcblibrary.org). 

We will keep you posted on any new developments as we become aware of them.

Bertie Mandelblatt

How to explore the embodied experience of living at sea (and learning to sail), when there were such glaring structural differences in the everyday lives of the people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean?

I selected the collection items for the October 2024 JCB exhibition, “Learning...