This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST 📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.” Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print. Details: pennmaterialtexts.org Hope to see you there!

Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!

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

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.

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

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!

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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!

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.

Preview of the AAS summer seminar on 19th-cent. American Photography. Applications due next month—and tuition scholarships are available for junior scholars.

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.

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.

I just love how this Increase Mather portrait is cordoned off like it’s a crime scene

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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-...

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-...

More info forthcoming for this exciting program. .

Soon, in April www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...

A summer class at UCLa where I condense 10+ years of archival research and bibliographical training. Rolling applications and scholarships available. Link to description in comments.

August 2024 I’ll teach History of the Book in America 1700-1900 at UCLA’s Cal Rare Book School. Many other great (better) classes to choose from as well!

JOB POSTING: Head of Cataloging Services at American Antiquarian Society. Share with friends!

Tomorrow 11/30 at 2pm EST—Michael Roy on 19th century slave narratives and antebellum print culture. Link to register below:

Collecting SUN RA—zoom discussion from UPenn Libraries tomorrow Friday 10/20

Tomorrow is the 2024 AAS Baron lecture featuring Nell Painter. Still time to register for in-person or virtual!

Apply for this fellowship and/or tell a friend. Deadline is 11/17/23

Excellent piece that summarizes many of the reasons why I resigned from a TT position at Florida State University.

This message courtesy of Sam McPheeters:

I’m afraid to rent for fear of Einsturzende Neubauten.

It’s sweater weather, so here’s my dog in his favorite warmie!

Today at 12 EST and not too late to register

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Oct. 15 deadline for the Hench 12 month postdoc at the American Antiquarian Society. Come work with the collections & I promise to leave you alone.

in nicer news—writers, visual artists: American Antiquarian Society's Creative Artist Fellowships applications are due October 5. I spent time there researching a book in summer 2021 + it was great—amazing staff, you can stay in a house that's clean and nice enough right by the archive, and it pays!

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