External Photo, AAS 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.

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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."

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CHAViC Conference

Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America was held at AAS November 4-5.

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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."

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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.

Unredeemed Captive

Baron Lecture Delivered

John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, presented "The Unredeemed Captive: Her Journey, and My Own"

Benny Tighe

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.

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Monday, Feb. 20 : Closed

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