Sponsored by the Book Club of California. Freedom to Discriminate shows the connection between two defining features of modern America that are rarely thought of together: the creation of residential segregation […]
Sponsored by FABS FABS 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 […]
Sponsored by FABS The 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
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. Curator Reid Byers will give a talk, “Collecting the Imaginary (in which all will be revealed),” in conjunction with his Book Club exhibition, […]
Sponsored by FABS Aaron 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 […]
Sponsored by FABS July 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 […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In 1891, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove, a utopian spiritualist community in northern […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California Where do significant collections come from? They start when ordinary people develop a passion for a subject or object. They begin to add […]
Sponsored by FABS Join us for "Collecting John Speed, London Antiquary and Cartographer" with Martha Driver! Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org John Speed (d. 1629) was a prolific illustrator, cartographer, […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society August 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 […]
Sponsored by FABS August 18, 7:30pm EST Gabrielle Fox & Neale Albert: An Uncommon Collaboration Join us for this discussion on commissioning miniature book bindings and collaborative book publishing! Gabrielle […]
Sponsored by FABS Join 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 […]