American Eighteenth-Century Women Printers

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Graphic designer and letterpress printer Professor Sarah McCoy will lecture on the lively, tumultuous lives of Colonial women printers, who were backbones of their families and communities. Words that they printed and disseminated, amid triumphs and hardships, helped shape the culture and freedoms of the early colonial world. Dr. McCoy […]

Virtual Lecture on Samuel Johnson

Sponsored by The Grolier Club A talk exploring the life, work, and home of lexicographer Samuel Johnson by Celine Luppo McDaid, for the past decade Donald Hyde Curator and Director of Dr. Johnson's House in London. McDaid is responsible for managing the only UK museum dedicated to the history of the English language, curating three […]