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 […]
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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 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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
March 15 @ 6:00 pm PDT Sponsored by the Bay Area History of Medicine Society (BAHMS) and the Grolier Club Annual Joint Dinner Meeting of BAHMS and Grolier Club Time: Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 6:00 pm PT Speaker: Jeremy Norman. NB: the previously announced speaker, Dr. Steven Lomazow, is unable […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club March 24, 9:00am-5:30pm EST Join us virtually for a full-day symposium in celebration of the “Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper” exhibition, sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Pattern and Flow” surveys for the first […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Feb 15, 6:30-8:00pm EST Throughout the first half of the 20th century, a literature for Yiddish-speaking children flourished on four continents. A traveling rabbi shares his Sabbath with a friendly lion; an engraved olive branch traces a century-long arc of exile and repatriation to the […]