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Please be advised that the John Carter Brown Library
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Please be advised that the John Carter Brown Library
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
will be closed to the public on Monday, December 15, 2025
and will remain closed until Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
Please be advised that the John Carter Brown Library will close for Winter Break from Tuesday, December 23, 2025 to Friday, January 9, 2026.
The Reading Room will remain closed until January 20, 2026.
We look forward to seeing everyone in the new year!
The Reading Room will remain closed until January 20, 2026.
We look forward to seeing everyone in the new year!
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Please be advised that the John Carter Brown Library will close for Winter Break from Tuesday, December 23, 2025 to Friday, January 9, 2026.
The Reading Room will remain closed until January 20, 2026.
We look forward to seeing everyone in the new year!
The Reading Room will remain closed until January 20, 2026.
We look forward to seeing everyone in the new year!
Join us Monday (12/15) for a collections- and object-based conversation about the archive of the Haitian Revolution, highlighting the rich collections of the John Carter Brown Library that document Haitian history during the broad revolutionary period.
Details and registration at jcblibrary.org!
Details and registration at jcblibrary.org!
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Join us Monday (12/15) for a collections- and object-based conversation about the archive of the Haitian Revolution, highlighting the rich collections of the John Carter Brown Library that document Haitian history during the broad revolutionary period.
Details and registration at jcblibrary.org!
Details and registration at jcblibrary.org!
Getting ready to plow through the last few weeks of the semester?
Enjoy a cozy morning, afternoon or evening in a re-imagined JCB Reading Room!
youtu.be/GQ_xpy3P4B8?...
Enjoy a cozy morning, afternoon or evening in a re-imagined JCB Reading Room!
youtu.be/GQ_xpy3P4B8?...
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Getting ready to plow through the last few weeks of the semester?
Enjoy a cozy morning, afternoon or evening in a re-imagined JCB Reading Room!
youtu.be/GQ_xpy3P4B8?...
Enjoy a cozy morning, afternoon or evening in a re-imagined JCB Reading Room!
youtu.be/GQ_xpy3P4B8?...
We're in the final weeks of Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature, an exhibit curated by José Montelongo.
Check out the YouTube playlist, and then come see it in person!
www.youtube.com/@thejohncart...
Open M-Th, 10am-12:45pm and 2-4:45pm, and F 10am- 12:45pm.
(Photo credit: Rythum Vinoben.)
Check out the YouTube playlist, and then come see it in person!
www.youtube.com/@thejohncart...
Open M-Th, 10am-12:45pm and 2-4:45pm, and F 10am- 12:45pm.
(Photo credit: Rythum Vinoben.)
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We're in the final weeks of Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature, an exhibit curated by José Montelongo.
Check out the YouTube playlist, and then come see it in person!
www.youtube.com/@thejohncart...
Open M-Th, 10am-12:45pm and 2-4:45pm, and F 10am- 12:45pm.
(Photo credit: Rythum Vinoben.)
Check out the YouTube playlist, and then come see it in person!
www.youtube.com/@thejohncart...
Open M-Th, 10am-12:45pm and 2-4:45pm, and F 10am- 12:45pm.
(Photo credit: Rythum Vinoben.)
Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads.
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
We look forward to seeing everyone next week!
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We look forward to seeing everyone next week!
We're excited to post the latest installment in our Journals of Congress series. Enjoy!
November 24 video for the Journals of Congress series
YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library
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November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We're excited to post the latest installment in our Journals of Congress series. Enjoy!
Our November 2025 newsletter contains all the latest news on JCB events, research opportunities, exhibitions, and more!
Visit jcblibrary.org today and sign up for our newsletter, or click here:
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Visit jcblibrary.org today and sign up for our newsletter, or click here:
conta.cc/43PpUxd
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Our November 2025 newsletter contains all the latest news on JCB events, research opportunities, exhibitions, and more!
Visit jcblibrary.org today and sign up for our newsletter, or click here:
conta.cc/43PpUxd
Visit jcblibrary.org today and sign up for our newsletter, or click here:
conta.cc/43PpUxd
Join us in welcoming our new Associate Director of Digital Asset Management, Meaghan J. Brown!
In her new role, Dr. Brown will guide the ongoing development of our platform, Americana, oversee the digitization of library collections, and steward our digital assets.
jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-wel...
In her new role, Dr. Brown will guide the ongoing development of our platform, Americana, oversee the digitization of library collections, and steward our digital assets.
jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-wel...
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Join us in welcoming our new Associate Director of Digital Asset Management, Meaghan J. Brown!
In her new role, Dr. Brown will guide the ongoing development of our platform, Americana, oversee the digitization of library collections, and steward our digital assets.
jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-wel...
In her new role, Dr. Brown will guide the ongoing development of our platform, Americana, oversee the digitization of library collections, and steward our digital assets.
jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-wel...
We can all use a little brain break once in a while!
The team at the JCB has been enjoying this jigsaw website, which allows users to upload an image and turn it into an online puzzle!
This one is an image of the Library. Have fun, and happy Friday!
jigex.com/ZCxZ5
The team at the JCB has been enjoying this jigsaw website, which allows users to upload an image and turn it into an online puzzle!
This one is an image of the Library. Have fun, and happy Friday!
jigex.com/ZCxZ5
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We can all use a little brain break once in a while!
The team at the JCB has been enjoying this jigsaw website, which allows users to upload an image and turn it into an online puzzle!
This one is an image of the Library. Have fun, and happy Friday!
jigex.com/ZCxZ5
The team at the JCB has been enjoying this jigsaw website, which allows users to upload an image and turn it into an online puzzle!
This one is an image of the Library. Have fun, and happy Friday!
jigex.com/ZCxZ5
We're very much looking forward to our Monday, December 1 JCB Reads session with Casey Schmitt!
JCB Reads offers former fellows an opportunity to discuss recent book-length publications with our community. All are welcome!
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
JCB Reads offers former fellows an opportunity to discuss recent book-length publications with our community. All are welcome!
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We're very much looking forward to our Monday, December 1 JCB Reads session with Casey Schmitt!
JCB Reads offers former fellows an opportunity to discuss recent book-length publications with our community. All are welcome!
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
JCB Reads offers former fellows an opportunity to discuss recent book-length publications with our community. All are welcome!
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Today is Day 2 of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southwest Seminar at the JCB.
Interested in learning more about JCB events? Check out our website! jcblibrary.org
Interested in learning more about JCB events? Check out our website! jcblibrary.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Today is Day 2 of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southwest Seminar at the JCB.
Interested in learning more about JCB events? Check out our website! jcblibrary.org
Interested in learning more about JCB events? Check out our website! jcblibrary.org
Genealogy was both “an intimate practice that families and individuals” undertook and “a practice that governments and other institutions, like churches and corporations, were invested in,” Wulf said.
Lovely piece by Ivy Huang in today's Brown Daily Herald!
Read the article: shorturl.at/Ug5rv
Lovely piece by Ivy Huang in today's Brown Daily Herald!
Read the article: shorturl.at/Ug5rv
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Genealogy was both “an intimate practice that families and individuals” undertook and “a practice that governments and other institutions, like churches and corporations, were invested in,” Wulf said.
Lovely piece by Ivy Huang in today's Brown Daily Herald!
Read the article: shorturl.at/Ug5rv
Lovely piece by Ivy Huang in today's Brown Daily Herald!
Read the article: shorturl.at/Ug5rv
The JCB is proud to host the 2025 meetings of the Southwest Seminar Consortium on Colonial Latin America.
We will welcome conference participants to the Library on November 13 and 14.
For more details, visit us at jcblibrary.org/events/2025-...
We will welcome conference participants to the Library on November 13 and 14.
For more details, visit us at jcblibrary.org/events/2025-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The JCB is proud to host the 2025 meetings of the Southwest Seminar Consortium on Colonial Latin America.
We will welcome conference participants to the Library on November 13 and 14.
For more details, visit us at jcblibrary.org/events/2025-...
We will welcome conference participants to the Library on November 13 and 14.
For more details, visit us at jcblibrary.org/events/2025-...
Today in person and online!
Join the Brown Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern U.) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America (Oxford UP, 2025).
Details:
events.brown.edu/event/321221...
Join the Brown Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern U.) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America (Oxford UP, 2025).
Details:
events.brown.edu/event/321221...
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Today in person and online!
Join the Brown Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern U.) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America (Oxford UP, 2025).
Details:
events.brown.edu/event/321221...
Join the Brown Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern U.) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America (Oxford UP, 2025).
Details:
events.brown.edu/event/321221...
The Library was busy today as we welcomed folks to our Critical Archives series as well as guests for 130 Years of Jewish Life at Brown.
Associate Librarian Kim Nusco welcomed visitors and shared items related to Jewish culture including this book:
americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
Associate Librarian Kim Nusco welcomed visitors and shared items related to Jewish culture including this book:
americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Library was busy today as we welcomed folks to our Critical Archives series as well as guests for 130 Years of Jewish Life at Brown.
Associate Librarian Kim Nusco welcomed visitors and shared items related to Jewish culture including this book:
americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
Associate Librarian Kim Nusco welcomed visitors and shared items related to Jewish culture including this book:
americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
Over the past few years the JCB’s team has grown, increasing our capacity to do the work of supporting research about the early Americas through our extraordinary collections. Over the past few months, we have added three new professionals the team.
Details at jcblibrary.org/news/novembe...
Details at jcblibrary.org/news/novembe...
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Over the past few years the JCB’s team has grown, increasing our capacity to do the work of supporting research about the early Americas through our extraordinary collections. Over the past few months, we have added three new professionals the team.
Details at jcblibrary.org/news/novembe...
Details at jcblibrary.org/news/novembe...
Our latest installment of JCB Reads featuring Katherine Johnston's discussion of her recent book publication with Karin Wulf is now available on YouTube!
Check it out at youtu.be/uYvOG7ABHDM
Check it out at youtu.be/uYvOG7ABHDM
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Our latest installment of JCB Reads featuring Katherine Johnston's discussion of her recent book publication with Karin Wulf is now available on YouTube!
Check it out at youtu.be/uYvOG7ABHDM
Check it out at youtu.be/uYvOG7ABHDM
Our latest video from our Journals of Congress series features three different items from our collection. Learn more here!
youtu.be/S7F_-R6LuoY?...
youtu.be/S7F_-R6LuoY?...
Journals of Congress Series: November 3
YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library
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November 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Our latest video from our Journals of Congress series features three different items from our collection. Learn more here!
youtu.be/S7F_-R6LuoY?...
youtu.be/S7F_-R6LuoY?...
Happening soon! Join us at 12 p.m. EDT for our latest installment of JCB Reads.
Today we will discuss Katherine Johnston's book "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World."
Join us!
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Today we will discuss Katherine Johnston's book "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World."
Join us!
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happening soon! Join us at 12 p.m. EDT for our latest installment of JCB Reads.
Today we will discuss Katherine Johnston's book "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World."
Join us!
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Today we will discuss Katherine Johnston's book "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-American World."
Join us!
brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us Monday, November 3 at 12 p.m. EDT for the latest edition of JCB Reads!
This virtual discussion focuses on The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (Montana State U).
Details/registration at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
This virtual discussion focuses on The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (Montana State U).
Details/registration at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Join us Monday, November 3 at 12 p.m. EDT for the latest edition of JCB Reads!
This virtual discussion focuses on The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (Montana State U).
Details/registration at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
This virtual discussion focuses on The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (Montana State U).
Details/registration at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
We've just launched the third video in our Journals of the First Continental Congress series, which we debuted earlier this month.
You can access all three installments on our YouTube channel, or skip right to today's content: youtu.be/WNoCKlJNG3I !
You can access all three installments on our YouTube channel, or skip right to today's content: youtu.be/WNoCKlJNG3I !
Third installment of the series on the Journals of the First Continental Congress
YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We've just launched the third video in our Journals of the First Continental Congress series, which we debuted earlier this month.
You can access all three installments on our YouTube channel, or skip right to today's content: youtu.be/WNoCKlJNG3I !
You can access all three installments on our YouTube channel, or skip right to today's content: youtu.be/WNoCKlJNG3I !
Did you know that the JCB has committed to digitizing all of its collections?
See the progress we've made so far at americana.jcblibrary.org!
Details: Branch of a blackwood or Jamaican walnut with oblong fruit being eaten by a land crab. americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
See the progress we've made so far at americana.jcblibrary.org!
Details: Branch of a blackwood or Jamaican walnut with oblong fruit being eaten by a land crab. americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Did you know that the JCB has committed to digitizing all of its collections?
See the progress we've made so far at americana.jcblibrary.org!
Details: Branch of a blackwood or Jamaican walnut with oblong fruit being eaten by a land crab. americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
See the progress we've made so far at americana.jcblibrary.org!
Details: Branch of a blackwood or Jamaican walnut with oblong fruit being eaten by a land crab. americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...