The American Antiquarian Society‘s Printers’ File contains information on 6000 people who were involved in the early American book trade. Emily Wells, a staff member at the AAS and an incoming College of William and Mary graduate student, will be...
Our reports from the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Providence last weekend continue to roll in. Elise Leal is a Ph.D candidate in American history at Baylor University. She is working on dissertation on the relationship between evangelicalism, social...
Kevin Levin, a secondary school teacher, Civil War scholar, and author of the Civil War Memory blog, sat down with fellow historian Megan Kate Nelson to talk about his experience teaching the American Studies Seminar at the American Antiquarian Society....
Periodical masthead from collections of American Antiquarian Society Vincent Golden, the Curator of Newspapers and Periodicals at the American Antiquarian Society, has uncovered some pretty interesting titles (with mastheads) of 19th-century newspapers.Read the post and see the mastheads at Past […]
This is very cool. Historian Allison Lange discusses the first published map of the American Revolution. It is housed at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. Here is a taste of her post at the AAS blog, “Past is...
What was the “Worcester Revolution of 1774?” Past is Present, the blog of the American Antiquarian Society, explains:On September 6, 1774, 4,622 militiamen from 37 towns marched into Worcester, shiretown for the county, closed the Royal courts, and forced each...
Picture of AAS chairs from “Past is Present” blog For over a century, readers working in the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester. MA sat in Colonial revival Windsor chairs. That all changed on January 6, 2014. Here is a taste...
Over at Past is Present: The American Antiquarian Society Blog, Laura Wasowicz begins a series of posts in which curators will describe their favorite stories about finding a new acquisition for the AAS library. Here is a taste of Wasowicz’s...
“King Andrew (Jackson)” from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society Check out Lauren Hewes’s post about the cartoon collection at the AAS. Here is a taste: AAS holds a comprehensive collection of political cartoons produced in the United States...
Over at Past is Present, the blog of the American Antiquarian Society, Vincent Golden calls our attention to a few early American periodicals that did not make it past the first issue. For example, I am guessing that none of...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5v4k3po9WM] I believe that The Way of Improvement Leads Home reader and fellow blogger Joseph Adelman makes a cameo early in the video....
