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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for congenial discussion of all things 19th century and bibliophilic! \nTo receive links and announcements\, write Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-14/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group: The Allure of Limp Paper Bindings
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for presentations and discussions of the craft of bookbinding. To receive links and announcements\, email Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \nThis month: Suzanne Moore on the beauty and necessity of limp paper bindings–when to use them\, and details that help protect the book-block. 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-7/
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SUMMARY:Excavating and Reckoning with California’s Sorrowful Past
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nTwo publications\, both published by Heyday\, bookend and frame Tony Platt’s talk. One book begins in a remote area of northwest California\, the other in the Bay Area’s metropolis. \nIn Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California’s Buried Indigenous Past (2011\, 202) Platt investigated the global trade in everything Indian that during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stocked public and university museums from Moscow to Berkeley. He was surprised to learn that the University of California\, Berkeley – his alma mater and workplace for many years – had played a significant role nationally in the pillaging of Indigenous homelands\, including the location of his family cabin in northern California. A decade later\, in a new edition of Grave Matters\, Platt reflects on how Cal\, as the university is known locally\, persisted in its defiance of law and morality\, and had failed to reckon with its sorrowful past. “The long struggle for repatriation is only part of a larger history still to be told\,” he observed. \nThat “larger history” is the subject of The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs\, White Supremacy\, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (2023\, 2025). Platt’s investigation into the university’s despicable hoarding of ancestral remains and cultural artifacts led him to a wider and deeper exploration of the university’s origins and development: its active participation in the dispossession of Native homelands and its significant role in the violence of conquest; the dominant influence of private wealth on the university’s governance\, then and now; the centrality of militarism in Cal’s DNA\, from the Indian Wars to Hiroshima and beyond; and the production of knowledge in textbooks\, popular narratives\, and public history that legitimated a racialized “California Story.” \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Tony Platt\, author\, historian\, and Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society \nTo register or for more information\, click here. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/excavating-and-reckoning-with-californias-sorrowful-past/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250912T120000
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SUMMARY:Elyse Graham on Book and Dagger
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nRemember why we chose you for this assignment. You’re a reader. September 12 is the day all your training is put to the test. \nThe code will be included in the special communique you’ll receive after you register. Memorize it and make it your own. \nIt will be vital as you rendezvous with the other Caxton agents to interrogate the author of Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II (Ecco Books – An Imprint of Harper Collins). \nWho is this phantom? It’s Elyse Graham\, codename Seawolf. \nHer cover story? Historian. Professor. Ivy covered halls of Stony Brook University\, which cleverly hides in plain sight … in Stony Brook\, New York. Graduate of Princeton. MIT. Yale. \nThis is your chance to unmask crafty saboteurs like Adele Kibre – medievalist. Sherman Kent – Yale historian. And more. You know the types. A chilling glance. A penetrating question. They knew how to wound. \nLocation. Steel Room. Eighth Floor. Union League Club. Noon. September 12. A big screen on the wall followed by a luncheon that will challenge the very fabric of your will power. (The soup alone could do in your diet.) \nOr\, if your cover’s been blown\, head for your safe house and login. Zoom will be your handler and using Chat to ask questions has a way of making speakers talk. \nGathered at the Union League Club or hunkered down in your safe house\, trench coats are optional. \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required\, click here.  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/elyse-graham-on-book-and-dagger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T200000
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SUMMARY:The Role of Manuscripts in Numismatic Literature & Research
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nDate: Monday\, Sept. 8\, 8pm EST  \nGuest Presenter: Leonard Augsburger\, Newman Numismatic Portal\, Washington University in St. Louis  \nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore  \nTitle: The Role of Manuscripts in Numismatic Literature & Research \nRegister: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7uMHKoNLRVmkHTz0uxIKIQ \nOverview:  \nThis presentation will provide an overview of the numismatic literature field and highlight significant manuscript items in American collections. We will explore the most significant repositories of numismatic manuscript materials and share first-hand observations of working with related institutions. The talk will cover specific applications of manuscripts within numismatic research\, drawing on the presenter’s and other publications. \nPresenter:  \nLen Augsburger is the Project Coordinator of the Newman Numismatic Portal (NewmanPortal.org) project at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published widely in the field of American numismatics and has three times won the Numismatic Literary Guild’s “Book of the Year” award. His most recent publication\, The Publication of Eric P. Newman: A Collector’s Guide\, summarizes a decade of curation of the Eric P. Newman numismatic papers. Len is a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society and holds leadership positions in other numismatic organizations.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-role-of-manuscripts-in-numismatic-literature-research/
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SUMMARY:High Spirits: The Legacy Bars of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California \nCommunity\, heritage\, architecture—oh yes\, and stiff pours: these are the hallmarks of San Francisco’s Legacy Bars. High Spirits leads readers on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood pub crawl in search of the city’s most remarkable nightspots. Atmospheric photographs accompany descriptions of each bar’s colorful history\, unique architectural features\, idiosyncratic owners\, and quirky clientele. As we dip into one barroom after another\, we see that these establishments function as unofficial cultural centers\, offering kinship and continuity amid an ever-changing city; indeed\, all of the bars shown are at least forty years old and sites of significant historic or cultural value as deemed by San Francisco Heritage. Whether we are following in the footsteps of Beat writers in North Beach’s Vesuvio Café\, tossing peanut shells on the floor of The Homestead in the Mission\, or selecting jukebox songs (three for a quarter) at the Silver Crest Donut Shop in Bayview\, High Spirits welcomes us as regulars at every spot\, showing off the conviviality that makes San Francisco one of the great saloon towns. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by J.K. Dineen\, author and reporter\, San Francisco Chronicle \nFor more information or to register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/high-spirits-the-legacy-bars-of-san-francisco/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250826T190000
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group\, with Reid Byers
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin the FABS Living With Books group for congenial discussion of the challenges and pleasures of home libraries. All are welcome. Contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-with-reid-byers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250825T170000
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SUMMARY:Postcards and the Baja California Border Towns
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California \nPostcards have a magical pull. They allow us to see the past through charming relics that allow us to travel back in time. Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Baja California Border offers a window into the historical and geographical past of storied Mexican border communities. Once-popular tourist destinations from the 1900s through the 1950s\, the border communities explored in Postcards from the Baja California Border used to be filled with revelers\, cabarets\, curio shops\, and more. \nThis form of place study calls attention to how we can see a past through a serial view of places\, by the nature of repetition\, and the photographing of the same place over and over again. Arreola draws our focus to townscapes\, or built landscapes\, of four border towns—Tijuana\, Mexicali\, Tecate\, and Algodones—during the first half of the twentieth century. \nA virtual presentation by Daniel Arreola\, author\, cultural geographer\, and Professor Emeritus\, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning\, Arizona State University. \nTo register or for more information\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/postcards-and-the-baja-california-border-towns/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for congenial conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th century\, from collecting to printing processes and 19th century bookish trends. All are welcome. Contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: Gabrielle Fox and Neale M. Albert
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nAugust 18\, 7:30pm EST \nGabrielle Fox & Neale Albert: An Uncommon Collaboration \nJoin us for this discussion on commissioning miniature book bindings and collaborative book publishing! Gabrielle is a bookbinder specializing in miniatures and Neale is a collector. They will discuss the process from both perspectives and look at how it led them to collaborative publishing. \nTo be added to the list\, contact Jennifer Larson info@fabsocieties.org \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-gabrielle-fox-and-neale-albert/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: "First to Answer Lincoln's Call" with Ravi D. Goel MD
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nAugust 11: Manuscript Mondays. This month’s topic: “First to Answer Lincoln’s Call\, Rejected by Yale: Heber S. Thompson and the Power of Manuscripts\,” presented by Ravi D. Goel MD. Dr. Goel will highlight the Civil War experiences of the first Yale College student to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers after the Battle of Fort Sumter. (The Manuscript Society) \nREGISTER: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d-YDSM_2TiiEpkJjGLbgQg#/registration \nRavi D. Goel\, MD\, is a comprehensive ophthalmologist and collector of historical manuscripts. His passion for preserving history has led to the donation of significant materials to institutions including the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum\, Amherst College\, Dickinson College\, Forest History Society\, Harvard University\, Minnesota Historical Society\, Princeton University\, Yale University\, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. \nDr. Goel’s collections include overlooked figures and “firsts” in American history\, with an emphasis on Yale alumni\, US Presidents\, and Civil War narratives. His efforts aim to preserve and share these stories with scholars\, researchers\, and future generations. \nHe shares highlights of his collecting journey at www.ProtectingSight.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-first-to-answer-lincolns-call-with-ravi-d-goel-md/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom: Collecting John Speed\, London Antiquary and Cartographer
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for “Collecting John Speed\, London Antiquary and Cartographer” with Martha Driver! Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \nJohn Speed (d. 1629) was a prolific illustrator\, cartographer\, genealogist\, historian and antiquary. Born into the middle class\, Speed worked as a tailor\, being admitted to the Merchant Taylor’s Company in 1580. He was then befriended by Sir Fulke Greville\, the first Lord Brooke\, and became a member of the influential Society of Antiquaries\, where he met scholars like William Camden\, Robert Cotton\, and William Smith. Speed is best known to Chaucer scholars for the Chaucer portrait he supplied as the frontispiece to Thomas Speght’s edition of Chaucer’s Workes\, which I discussed in a 2002 essay in The Chaucer Review\, but he also published The History of Great Britain\, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain\, and The Genealogies Recorded in Sacred Scriptures\, among other works\, all of which drew on Speed’s contacts with wealthy London antiquarian collectors. \nIn my own modest collection are Speed’s map of Middlesex\, untimely ripped\, I fear (not by me)\, from Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine\, which has some interesting (if not precisely factual) illustrations and inscriptions relating to London\, and a copy of Speed’s England Wales Scotland and Ireland … Described and Abridged (1656)\, which originally included Middlesex (though in my copy\, that map is missing). I also have a copy of Speght’s Workes of Our Ancient and Lerned English Poet\, Geffrey Chaucer\, with the Chaucer portrait\, and Speed’s genealogies bound into a Geneva Bible published in Scotland by Andro Hart (1610)\, along with a copy of Speed’s History of Great Britain. In his work\, Speed is shown in his roles not only as artist and cartographer but as historian and synthesizer of a variety of sources. He is an informed copyist\, his maps serving as historical documentsthat present contemporary pictures of Elizabethan and Jacobean Britain\, along with earlier historical artifacts. \nMartha W. Driver\, PhD\, FSA \nNb This talk is in preparation for a conference in Cambridge on the medieval city – Speed of course is not medieval but records medieval tombs\, objects\, buildings and towns in his maps (I would be happy to have any feedback). \n\nMartha Westcott Driver\, FSA\, is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies (emerita) at Pace University in New York City. A co-founder of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history\, Dr. Driver writes about illustration from manuscript to print and manuscript and book production. She is a prolific author and editor (Among many publications I will mention only The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England\, The British Library\, 2001). She serves on the executive boards of the American Trust for the British Library and the Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland\, among other advisory roles\, and is a member of multiple bibliographic and bibliophilic societies including The Grolier Club. \n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-collecting-john-speed-london-antiquary-and-cartographer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250811T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250811T191500
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SUMMARY:Citizen-Collectors in the Cultural Artifacts Ecosystem
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California \nWhere do significant collections come from? They start when ordinary people develop a passion for a subject or object. They begin to add more items\, filling in gaps and improving examples they have. They become subject matter experts in a narrow field. Small collections grow into larger ones until eventually dealers and institutions get involved. Lincoln Cushing has worked as a professional archivist in university special collections as well as private archives\, and is now an “archival midwife” shepherding collections from private to public spheres. Cushing will share his experiences and explore how the processes and ethics of paper-based collections have evolved in the digital age. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Lincoln Cushing\, librarian\, archivist\, author\, and lecturer \nFor more information and to register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/citizen-collectors-in-the-cultural-artifacts-ecosystem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250728T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250728T191500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T093200Z
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SUMMARY:Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex\, Scandal\, and California’s First Cult Scare
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 1891\, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove\, a utopian spiritualist community in northern California. Chevaillier accused the colony’s leader\, the poet and prophet Thomas Lake Harris\, of perverting the teachings of the Bible to promote a “new sexology” that was “worse than Mormonism.” Media reports emphasized the presence of Japanese immigrant men at Fountaingrove\, raising racialized specters of miscegenation and moral contamination. The international scandal\, full of the sorts of salacious details prized by newspaper editors at the dawn of the era of yellow journalism\, would last more than a decade\, establishing Harris as the prototype for a new type of public menace-the “California cult leader.” \nUnholy Sensations takes a close-up look at the Fountaingrove scandal to examine religion\, gender\, sexuality\, and race in the Gilded Age from a fresh perspective. By showing that the term “cult” has always been a marker of race\, sexuality\, and religion\, Unholy Sensations reveals the limits of American freedom and the centrality of religion to the policing of whiteness\, family\, and nation. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Joshua Paddison\, author and Associate Professor of Instruction\, Texas State University \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/unholy-sensations-a-story-of-sex-scandal-and-californias-first-cult-scare/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T190000
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CREATED:20250626T165632Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom: Book Boxes and Manuscripts in the Library
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJuly 22: Join the FABS Living With Books group for congenial discussion of the challenges and pleasures of home libraries. This month’s topics: (1) Clamshell and other book boxes; (2) Manuscripts in the library. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-book-boxes-and-manuscripts-in-the-library/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: Aaron Pratt on Horn Books and Early Learning Materials
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nAaron Pratt\, a curator at the Harry Ransom Center\, will show a clip on horn books and then turn to a discussion of early learning materials. All are welcome. \nContact: Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-aaron-pratt-on-horn-books-and-early-learning-materials/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T181500
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SUMMARY:On Collecting the Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nCurator Reid Byers will give a talk\, “Collecting the Imaginary (in which all will be revealed)\,” in conjunction with his Book Club exhibition\, “Imaginary Books: Lost\, Unfinished\, and Fictive Books Found Only in Other Books.” The talk will deal with the curious issues surrounding the acquisition of immaterial and imaginary items for collections. \nOn view at the Book Club through July 21\, 2025\, Reid’s exhibition is part conceptual art installation and part bibliophilic entertainment. It consists of a collection of books that do not really exist\, but represent an alternative library that encourages speculation on some of the major “what ifs” of bibliographic history. Included in the exhibit are a wide range of lost books that we know once actually existed but of which no examples now survive; unfinished books that were begun in some fashion but were never published; and fictive books that exist only in story and never had any physical form of existence\, but of which Reid has now created physical simulacra. \nA virtual presentation by Reid Byers\, author\, collector\, curator\, and president of the Baxter Society \nTo register\, click here. \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/on-collecting-the-imaginary/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250626T165957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T165957Z
UID:2804-1752780600-1752784200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe FABS 19th Century Zoom Group meets for convivial conversation about all things bookish and 19th century! You are invited. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-group-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250714T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250714T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250626T165818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T165835Z
UID:2801-1752521400-1752525000@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Group: John Windle and David Levy
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nFABS Handpress Era Group will meet at 7:30pm EST on Zoom for an hour of talk about printed items before 1800. John Windle will speak on the intriguing topic “Adana to Vandercook” and David Levy will discuss two acquisitions from the latest Ricky Jay sale\, dealing with two eighteenth-century pamphlets on Hoyle. Contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250714T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250714T191500
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250624T091235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T091357Z
UID:2792-1752516000-1752520500@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California. \nFreedom to Discriminate shows the connection between two defining features of modern America that are rarely thought of together: the creation of residential segregation in every city in the country\, and of a conservative counter-idea of American freedom in the 1960s – of freedom without regard to the rights of others — that has shifted America more and more to the right ever since. \nBoth were 20th century inventions\, as invented as the airplane. Both were designed to divide Americans. Both were created by a private business organization – the nation’s realtors — to sell homes and maintain their business practices. Like so many innovations\, California was at the center of these changes\, from the country’s first all-white neighborhood in Berkeley\, to realtors’ successful 1964 state constitutional amendment to authorize segregation that shaped the rise of Ronald Reagan. \nConfidential documents from leaders of the real estate industry show how they constructed what have become many of our most intractable divides today – not only geographic\, but social\, economic and ideological. Far from impacting only those it excluded\, residential segregation dramatically reshaped the country for all Americans\, the neighborhoods where we live\, and the beliefs that drive our enormous polarization today. This story shows the power of distinguishing two opposite ideas of American freedom: exclusive freedom that belongs only to yourself and those like you as your private property and that uses the language of libertarianism to enforce community conformity\, versus inclusive freedom that belongs to the country as a whole and thus equally to all. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Gene Slater\, author and founding principal of CSG Advisors \nTo register for the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/freedom-to-discriminate-how-realtors-conspired-to-segregate-housing-and-divide-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250707T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250707T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250702T133554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T133644Z
UID:2811-1751918400-1751918400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: New York Stories
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Mondays\nNew York Stories in Manuscript: \nAnthony Janszoon van Salee and Samuel Jones \nMonday\, July 7\, 2025\, 8:00 PM Eastern \nFree Live Webinar \nPresenter: Peter Klarnet \nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore \nFrom its founding in 1625\, New York City has always been a place of diverse peoples and opinions. Peter will explore stories of two individuals who exemplify the city’s diversity as revealed through two manuscripts: Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607-1676)\, believed to be the first Muslim to settle in what is now the United States\, and Samuel Jones (1734-1819) a former Loyalist who was a key figure in New York State’s ratification of the Constitution. \nRegistration: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2CWgy6DjS-acPFzpRbJUKA \n(You will receive an email confirmation of registration.) \nPresenter Peter Klarnet is the current Vice President of The Manuscript Society. He has been a trustee since 2018. \nPeter joined Christies in 2016 after 20 years of working with manuscript Americana\, spending the first portion of his career cataloging for\, and later managing\, a Connecticut auction house specializing in historical autographs. In 2005 he left that firm to pursue opportunities as a consultant\, agent and dealer. Although his primary interests center on early America\, especially the American Revolution and Early Republic\, Peter has appraised\, cataloged and sold a wide range of material from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Since joining Christie’s\, Peter has worked with many important collections including the papers of the Marquis de Chastellux\, The Private Collection of President and Mrs. Reagan\, The Findlay-Wright Papers\, the Roger Judd Collection of American Historical Autographs\, the Louisiana Purchase Collection of A. J. Tullock\, The Collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill\, The Private Collection of William S. Reese\, The Birth of Wikipedia\, The Papers of Richard N. Goodwin\, and most recently\, DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of Hip Hop and The Collection of André Leon Talley. Some of Peter’s more prominent auction records include the sale of the Albert Einstein God Letter\, bringing $2.89 million—a world record for an Einstein letter at auction; the unique Ionic Original disc of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” (£1.48m); and most recently the Arizona Spike: one of four presentation spikes presented at the ceremony marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 ($2.22m). \n \nPeter holds a B.A. in History from Antioch College\, and a M.A. in History from the University of Delaware with a certificate in museum studies. He has curated several exhibits including a major exhibition at Federal Hall in New York celebrating the bicentennial. \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-new-york-stories/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250523T175051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250523T175051Z
UID:2759-1750791600-1750797000@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJune 24: Join the FABS Living With Books group and your host Reid Byers for congenial discussion of the challenges and pleasures of home libraries. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T150000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250601T055829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250601T055959Z
UID:2765-1750600800-1750604400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Plain Wrapper Press: A Half-Century of Fine Press Publishing and Printing
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington. \nA special opportunity to learn about the exquisite publications of Plain Wrapper Press Redux from its founder Mark E. Fischer. \nTo register\, click here. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/plain-wrapper-press-a-half-century-of-fine-press-publishing-and-printing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250619T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250523T174942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250523T174942Z
UID:2757-1750361400-1750365000@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJune 19: The FABS 19th Century Zoom Group meets monthly for convivial conversation about all things bookish and 19th century! You are invited. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-12/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250616T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250616T181500
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250325T163827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250510T005020Z
UID:2637-1750093200-1750097700@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Writing about San Francisco in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nAuthor and historian Robert Cherny is the author of seven monographs\, co-author of two monographs and of college-level textbooks in US history and California history\, co-editor of two anthologies\, and author of some forty articles in journals or anthologies. Nearly all of his published work deals in some way with the post-Civil War history of the western US\, and much of it deals with San Francisco and California. \nCherny will discuss how his research agenda changed in the mid-1980s\, when he began to focus on the 1930s in San Francisco. That change began when he agreed to write a biography of Harry Bridges\, the often controversial leader of what is now the International Longshore and Warehouse Union\, a union active in all the Pacific Coast states and British Columbia. He will talk about how this research\, and some subsequent extensions\, eventually led to several journal articles and four books Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art (2017)\, Harry Bridges: Labor Radical\, Labor Legend (2023)\, San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area\, 1919-1958 (2024)\, and The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco (2024). His forthcoming book summarizes the history of San Francisco from the arrival of the first humans to the present. \nCherny will spend a good portion of his lecture on The Coit Tower Murals\, beginning with the context\, then the artists at work\, the murals\, and the subsequent controversies about those and other New Deal murals in the city. \nA virtual presentation by Robert W. Cherny\, author\, scholar\, professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University. \nTo register\, click here. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/writing-about-san-francisco-in-the-1930s/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250613T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250613T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250318T032328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250510T004124Z
UID:2606-1749816000-1749819600@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Joseph Hone on The Book Forger
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nJune Midday Program \n \nJoin the Caxton Club and Joseph Hone for his presentation on “The Book Forger.” \nLet us clue you in. \nComposer Jerome Kern of Showboat and “The Way You Look Tonight” fame was an amazing book collector. And kern is going to figure prominently into the remarkable story you’ll be hearing … but it will be kern not Kern\, for the composer in this tale was no musician. \nInstead he was every bit a Wise man who conducted a daring swindle that caught eager bibliophiles in a net of fraud and deceit … bibliophiles who included a prominent Caxtonian. Here’s a tantalizing hint: there’s a Ransom note that says Wise materials are being held in Austin\, Texas. Talk about footprints — some fourteen feet are involved! Someone did a lot of boxing. \nAnother scrap of a clue about the forgery: a sonnet is on it. \nMore riddles than solutions. What we need is a clever Englishman to play Sherlock to our Watson. Ah! We’ve got one: Joseph Hone. \nDr. Hone is a reader in literature and book history at Newcastle University. With degrees from Oxford and Exeter he is much published. The Book Forger is his fourth bofok — and it’s the genuine article. \nIt’s elementary. If you enjoy true crime stories in which the only red is the blushing of all those who were taken in\, and if your appetite was whetted by Tom Danneberg’s terrific review of the The Book Forger in the March/April Caxtonian\, then you’ll want to forge ahead and register for this program today! \nLive attendance and optional lunch \nView Zoom program on eighth floor\, Steel Room\, Union League Club. Presentation begins at 12:00 PM CT. Optional lunch immediately following in the fourth floor Rendezvous. $35 includes non-alcoholic beverage\, a cup of soup\, and your choice of sandwich\, salad\, or hot entree\, tax\, and tip. \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. \nZoom begins at 12:00PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Preregistration required via website. \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/joseph-hone-on-the-book-forger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250609T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250609T193000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250530T163621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T163621Z
UID:2762-1749497400-1749497400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Group: Karen Hanmer on the Biblio Tech models
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us on Zoom for a talk by Karen Hanmer on the Biblio Tech models\, reverse-engineered historic and modern binding structures. See them here: https://karenhanmer.com/gallery/p/bibliotech \nNote the one-time date change to the second Monday of the month. \nTo receive a link and join the bindings Zoom group\, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-group-karen-hanmer-on-the-biblio-tech-models/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250609T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250609T193000
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250523T174824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250523T174824Z
UID:2755-1749497400-1749497400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Handpress: Dr. Eugene Flamm on Martin Lister
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJune 9: FABS Handpress Era Group will meet at 7:30pm EST on Zoom for an hour of talk about printed items before 1800. Dr. Eugene Flamm will speak on “Putative Provenance: Martin Lister as a Bibliophilic Iterist” regarding a volume perhaps given by Lister to the Earl of Portland\, with additional discussion of two Earls of Essex. (Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-dr-eugene-flamm-on-martin-lister/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250609T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250609T191500
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250325T162733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T163001Z
UID:2635-1749492000-1749496500@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:2025 Oscar Lewis Awards
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nThe Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992)\, author\, historian\, and club secretary. Join us as we recognize this year’s honorees for their contributions to the Book Arts and to Western History. This is an in-person and virtual event. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/2025-oscar-lewis-awards/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250602T191500
DTSTAMP:20260420T225549
CREATED:20250325T162305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T163229Z
UID:2633-1748887200-1748891700@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:From Page to Stage and Back: The Theatrical Adventures of Writer and Illustrator Edward Gorey
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nEdward Gorey’s creations as a book artist are distinctive: sparse\, oblique story lines paired with intricate\, oblique drawings. Yet even his most ardent fans may not know that the author-illustrator of The Beastly Baby\, The Doubtful Guest\, and The Curious Sofa also directed these and dozens of unpublished texts on stages from Cape Cod to Los Angeles. Gorey’s comrade-in-arts Carol Verburg helped make it happen. Now\, with privileged access to his archives\, she’s chronicled her friend’s underground career as a dramatist in The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey. Verburg will talk about some of the hidden gems Gorey transformed from script to manuscript and vice versa\, and how his lifelong curiosity about form was shaped by his experiments with collaboration. \n An in-person and virtual presentation by Carol J. Verburg\, playwright\, theatre director\, and author. \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/from-page-to-stage-and-back-the-theatrical-adventures-of-writer-and-illustrator-edward-gorey/
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