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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/Los_Angeles:20250714T180000
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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:20250714T193000
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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/New_York:20250717T193000
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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:20250721T170000
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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: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:20250722T190000
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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/Los_Angeles:20250728T180000
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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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