The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is an independent research library
founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections
document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the
Civil War and Reconstruction.
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New Online Exhibition
Beauties of America is a visual catalog and record of the Staffordshire pottery of John Ridgway in the Society's collection.
Books and Articles
The June through August list of recent scholarship based on research at AAS is now available.
Recent Lecture
Carolyn Eastman, associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, presented "'Grandeurs wch I had heard of': Books and the Imagined World of Travel in the Eighteenth Century."
CHAViC Conference
Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America was held at AAS November 4-5.
Recent Public Program
David Jaffee, Professor and Head of New Media Research at the Bard Graduate Center, presented "Learning to Look at Early American Material Culture."
Abigail and John
Joseph J. Ellis, Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, presented "American Love Story: Abigail and John."
Online Exhibition
Men in the Young Republic explores images of men in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Baron Lecture Delivered
John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, presented "The Unredeemed Captive: Her Journey, and My Own"
A Book Scout Remembered
A brief biography of Benny Tighe, book scout, 1895-1975, by Marcus A. McCorison is available as a supplement to the Almanac.Library Closings
Thursday, Feb. 16 : Closing at 3 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 20 : Closed
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