Sponsored by The Grolier Club April 4, 6:00-7:30pm Children’s voices - found in diaries, manuscript newspapers, and other child-authored texts - constitute essential evidence for a fuller history of the American past, illuminating how young people encountered and interpreted their worlds. While such texts are abundant, they are not easily discoverable in archives. American Antiquarian […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club April 5, 6:00-7:30pm EST Join this Zoom event for a virtual pre-recorded tour of the "Pattern and Flow" exhibition followed by a live Q&A. “Pattern and Flow” surveys for the first time the golden age of American decorated paper, telling the story of 53 imaginative and innovative artists who, working […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join Curator Eve Kahn for a pre-recorded virtual tour of "Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia," followed by a live Q&A. “To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia,” runs in the 2nd-floor gallery of The Grolier Club through May 13, 2023. Norris (1860-1914) […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier member David Alan Richards (Stamford, CT), retired lawyer and literary, social, and legal historian, will give an illustrated talk on his new book from Oak Knoll Press, "I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library, 1656-2022." This is the first history to be written of a library […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, and a scholar of American cuisine, will speak in connection with the current Grolier exhibition, "A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841-1941,” from the collection of Henry Voigt. Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-paul-freedman-on-how-dining-out-changed-1841-1941-tickets-609633037827?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join ASU Professor Seonaid Valiant on how a Gilded Age anthropologist made discoveries about a British aristocrat's Mixtec Codex. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-zelia-nuttall-early-modern-mexican-pictorial-mss-tickets-719345801657?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club October 5, 6:00pm New York Time Join Ken Gloss of Boston's Brattle Book Shop as he speaks on improbable and wonderful finds throughout his career. This is how he describes the surprises he's experienced while bookselling: “One day you find yourself drinking from Thomas Jefferson’s coffee service, and the next […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club UMass Amherst professor and recent Grolier Helfand fellow Joe Black will speak on early modern women's libraries. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-private-libraries-of-early-modern-british-women-tickets-719347607057?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Jason W. Dean will give a talk on an under-appreciated figure in the history of the fine press, Texas printer Carl Hertzog (1902-1984). In his career of 61 years, he earned numerous awards and wide recognition, including from the AIGA and the Rounce and Coffin Club. Hertzog was responsible for […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Maria Georgopoulou on the latest discoveries of how the Gennadius Library in Athens came to be. With highlights including early editions of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and a laurel wreath belonging to Lord Byron, the Library sheds light on Hellenism, Greece, and neighboring civilizations from antiquity to modern times. Register […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Virtual lecture, free and open to the public CBS Producer Alvin Patrick shares his collection of African Americans' books with frontispiece author portraits. Club member Alvin Patrick, a CBS News Executive Producer, has amassed over 2,000 books during 30 years of collecting. He will discuss highlights of his first editions […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Scholars David Stromberg and Aaron Lansky will discuss a new book,Isaac Bashevis Singer's Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 (White Goat Press). November 11 would have been the 120th birthday of the late Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. This collection, edited and translated by David Stromberg, editor of […]