Registration is now underway for Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past.

This event will take place June 20-22 at Brown University.

Details here shorturl.at/fAF01.

We are delighted to host the event 'Talking Fiction with Xochitl Gonzalez ’99' on behalf of the Literary Arts Department. Join us in person at the JCB or via livestream!

Details here:
events.brown.edu/event/283808-t…

A zodiac surrounds an image of the earth including North and South America. The border contains fish, dolphins, hedgehogs, butterflies, snail, eagles, double-headed (Hapsburg) eagle, and birds.

americana.jcblibrary.org/search/object/…

The team at the JCB would like to thank FEEGI for the opportunity to host their 30th anniversary meeting at Brown University. We had two wonderful days of presentations and discussions on campus.

More photos and links to recordings will be posted soon!

Today is the first day of FEEGI, the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions!
Join us online at
brown.zoom.us/j/91021806459

Today! Professors Berenice Alcántara and Mario Alberto Sánchez are part of a group of scholars who have reframed and revitalized Nahuatl translation studies. This talk is centered on Codex Indorum 23, a manuscript that once belonged to a noble Indigenous woman from Tlaxcala.

The JCB will host FEEGI, the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions, later this week.

Explore the full program here: feegi.org/uploads/3/5/4/…

Archival shouting — Karin Wulf, director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History, penned this feature for American Historical Association's newsmagazine on 'archival silence' and 'archival shouting' in collections and institutions. historians.org/research-and-p…

There's still time to check out our current exhibition, 1846: Inventing Americana at the John Carter Brown Library, curated by Bertie Mandelblatt and José Montelongo.
Now through April 22!
For more details, or to explore the exhibition online, visit americana.jcblibrary.org/exhibitions/18….

Today is World Art Day!

So many items in our collection are works of art, from detailed drawings like this one to intricate maps and gorgeously made books.
Learn more on our digital platform!
americana.jcblibrary.org

Inga plant with insects.
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717

The JCB will host this year's Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) conference on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20.

In-person registration has closed, but there is still time to register for the online version!

Visit jcblibrary.org!

We are bringing #NationalLibraryWeek to a close with our most recent blog post. We are very proud to share the news that three members of our staff (Mark, Cheryl and José, pictured below) will attend Rare Book School (RBS) this summer.

Read more at
jcblibrary.org/news/jcbrbs

Our next #NationalLibrariesWeek post highlights the work that our team has done with the Brown Family Business Records (BFBR), which span the 18th to the 20th centuries across 1345 boxes of files, letters, and ledgers.

More at jcblibrary.org/news/brown-fam…

Our posts recognizing JCB team members' efforts as part of #NationalLibraryWeek continue!

We highlighted the work that Head of Libraries Conservation Roger S. Williams does at Brown in November for Ask a Conservator Day.

Read more here:
jcblibrary.org/news/askaconse…

Next, we highlight our blog post 'Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery,' which details recent work by Bertie Mandelblatt, George S. Parker II ’51 Curator of Maps and Prints.

More here: jcblibrary.org/news/mapping-r…

As #nationallibraryweek draws to a close, we are highlighting our team's work at the JCB and beyond!

First, Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Materials Kimberly Toney created the Instagram account “Their Marks.”

More here:
jcblibrary.org/news/their-mar…

As National Library Week continues, we highlight the reflections on archival silence offered by JCB Director Karin Wulf in the piece 'Archival Shouting: Silence and Volume in Collections and Institutions.'

Read on in the AHA's 'Perspectives on History' at shorturl.at/etGM1

On May 16, the JCB will host a talk by NYU Law Professor Maggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) titled 'The Constitution of American Colonialism.'

Free and open to the public. 5 p.m. with reception to follow.
jcblibrary.org/events/constit…

We are grateful to Associate Librarian for Research and Reference Kimberly Nusco for taking the time to select and share materials from the JCB's collection with students from Leon Hilton's Performance Historiography and Theatre History course.

Happy National Library Workers' Day from the JCB!

The American Library Association sponsors National Library Workers Day, and it was first celebrated in 2004.

Learn more here: ala-apa.org/nlwd/