Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Free, Live, Webinar Monday, August 5, 2024, 8:00PM Eastern Time Presenter: Rebecca Elder, Elder Cultural Preservation Join us for a live presentation to learn more about properly caring for your manuscript collection. Experienced cultural heritage preservation consultant, Rebecca Elder will lead us through the physical […]
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Sponsored by The Caxton Club The smartphone is beginning to supersede the pocket diary, but in the 18th century, people carried tiny manuscripts preserving not only dates and addresses, but windows into their lives and personalities. Join Julie Park for “Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Julie Park on Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and Formats of Personal Information Storage When/Where: 6/14/2024 12:00 PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. ULCC live attendance – Zoom presentation and optional […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club The second annual Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture on the Importance of Historical Letters and Documents. Grolier member Kenneth W. Rendell will speak on “Hidden Themes in Collecting: What I Discovered About My Own Collecting.” This program will be live webcast. Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-kenneth-w-rendell-on-hidden-themes-in-collecting-tickets-796214989467?aff=ebdsoporgprofile If you […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Maybe you’ve read The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. Or recall an article by David Easterbrook in the Caxtonian about a superb collection of stunning and important manuscripts and other materials devoted to African Studies. Both book and journal would have pointed you toward the exceptional […]
Sponsored by The Baxter Society Free and open to the public via Zoom. To register contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com Nicholas Basbanes, NEH Public Scholar and beloved author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books and On Paper: The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History, will speak on his […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Theater didn’t just spring to life with Shakespeare. Morality, mystery, masques and more trod the boards long before anyone conjured up the First Folio. You’ll want to be in the audience as Dr. Carol Symes explores the lively history of medieval plays. Among Caxton speakers, […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society It’s our Manuscript Mondays Almost Independence Day Virtual Summer Beach Party! Monday July 3, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern – Live We’ll open it up to a virtual gathering of friends, lively discussion, and a show and tell. This is a live, Zoom meeting format, not a webinar, […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Presenter: Dr. Stuart Embury Moderator: Brian Kathenes John Sloan Letter – collection of S. Embury It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, or perhaps Georgia O’Keeffe. You’ve read about them or seen their art, but now you reading their words written in […]
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 […]