Sponsored by The Book Club of California California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched […]
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Sponsored by The Book Club of California An archive survives to be revived. The archive as a limit, a thing in a box, is always also an opening. It opens on losses sustained, harms inflicted, the tenacity of survival, and on the persistence of lineages both proud and shameful. But […]
A central theme of Making a Modern U.S. West by Sarah Deutsch is the question of what would constitute a modern U.S. and whose vision would define the West and the nation. Modernity for some meant corporate consolidation, capital intensive agriculture, white supremacy, male-headed families and private individual land-holding. For […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Mondays – Free, Live Webinar Monday, April 1, 2024 8:00 pm Eastern Daylight time Join Jay Gaidmore – From the Special Collections Research Center, at the Earl Gregg Swem Library (College of William & Mary) When most people hear of a writer’s archives, they […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Dating from 1853, the Washington State Library is the state’s oldest cultural institution, preserving for decades items not duplicated elsewhere that hold the answers to so many questions about the past. Come along on our virtual guided tour of this research playground! Register […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California MONDAY, November 6, 2023 Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores ** Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West ** 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual […]
Sponsored by The Baxter Society and the Bowdoin College Library. Kimberly Toney, Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections at Bowdoin College Library, will speak on the Algonquian Bible. Free and open to the public on Zoom. To register and receive a Zoom link, contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com
Sponsored by The Grolier Club In recognition of Banned Book Week, Molly Manning will speak on censorship and propaganda in connection with the themes of her exhibition, “The Best Read Army in the World.” During World War II—a time of rampant propaganda, censorship, and Nazi book bans in Europe—the United […]
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 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: […]