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John Garcia
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AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Folks in the U of Miami area—I’ll be giving a lecture on Tuesday, Sept 9 about Black participation in early American print shops, paper mills, and libraries at the Kislak Center.
Slavery and the Making of the Early American Book
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August 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Next week! Christopher Looby delivers the James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Register to attend in-person at AAS or virtually.
#bookhistory #C19
June 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Next Tuesday 4/15 is the deadline to apply for this summer’s CHAViC seminar on Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World. Don’t miss it!
April 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Leaving this without comment.
April 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!
March 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Next week! Virtual Book Talk featuring Ben Bascom’s Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early U.S. Thurs. March 27 at 2pm EST. Link in comments to register.
March 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Preview of the AAS summer seminar on 19th-cent. American Photography. Applications due next month—and tuition scholarships are available for junior scholars.
Summer Seminar Preview: CHAViC 2025
YouTube video by AmericanAntiquarian
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March 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
February 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society.

Link with more info in comments.
January 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.

Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.

Link in comments.
January 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I just love how this Increase Mather portrait is cordoned off like it’s a crime scene
December 13, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Fellowship alert: apply for fellowships for scholars and artists to research in the Kislak Center at the University of Miami. Holdings in early Americas, Indigenous history, colonization and exploration, Latin America. Good people there.
Link in comments.
December 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Worth reposting for new folks in my feed: this THURSDAY at 4pm est—register to watch Sara Johnson speak about her amazing work on slavery, colonialism, and the history of the book in the life of a French intellectual from the era of the Haitian Revolution. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9823
November 20, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Next week: AAS virtual book talk featuring Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. 11/21 at 4pm EST. Link to register in comments
November 11, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Don’t miss out! Next Monday, July 15, Joseph Rezek gives the Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture on “Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print” at the American Antiquarian Society.

www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9400
Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print | American Antiquarian Society
www.americanantiquarian.org
July 12, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Tomorrow, Thurs. 2pm EST: Virtual Book Talk roundtable with presentations on the history of bookstores, the rare book trade, and women book collectors. Link to register: www.americanantiquarian.org/node/8568
May 29, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Next week! Lara Langer Cohen’s Virtual Book Talk on her 2023 book Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the 19th-Century United States.

Register here: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
April 18, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Still time to apply to the 2024 AAS summer seminar on Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice, using materials from the amazing AAS graphic arts collection.

www.americanantiquarian.org/2024-chavic-...
March 29, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Next week March 28 at 2pm—Duncan Faherty virtual book talk on The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters.

www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
March 20, 2024 at 1:44 PM
This Thursday 2/29 at 2pm EST;
Virtual Biik Talk by Martha Cutter on Henry “Box” Brown. Check it out!

Link to register: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
February 26, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The 2024 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book at the American Antiquarian Society is now online. “Comparative Migrations and Multilingual Cultures of Print” taught by Rodrigo Lazo and Patrick Erben, July 14-19. More info here:

www.americanantiquarian.org/comparative-...
February 24, 2024 at 3:44 PM
The 2024 CHACiC summer seminar is how online. “Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice” taught by Laurel Daen and Jennifer Van Horn.

www.americanantiquarian.org/2024-chavic-...
February 13, 2024 at 1:53 PM
More info forthcoming for this exciting program.

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February 8, 2024 at 7:14 PM
January 25, 2024 at 9:51 PM