2005 Public Lectures
Nantucket to the World: How a New England Island Inspired America's
First Ocean-Going Voyage of Discovery
By Nathaniel Philbrick
Drawing on his two latest books, In the Heart of the Sea and Sea
of Glory,
Nathaniel Philbrick tells the story of how the whale men of Nantucket
inspired the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 more ...
"The World Has Gone to Reading": How Nineteenth-Century Religious
Publishers and
Readers Learned to Use the New Mass Medium of Print
By David Paul Nord
Based upon his latest book, Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and
the Birth of Mass Media in America, 1790-1860, David Paul Nord tells
the
story of those publishers and their readers.
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The twenty-third annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History
of the Book:
The Emerging Media of Early America
By Sandra Gustafson
Electronic media are radically reshaping our understanding of what texts
are, how they produce meaning, and how verbal forms affect society and
culture. Recent transformations in verbal technologies help to illuminate
earlier moments in the history of textual forms. In this lecture,
Gustafson will
examine some common assumptions about the history of verbal technologies
and offer new ways of thinking about the emergent properties of textual
media.
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The Second Annual Robert C. Baron Lecture
Troubled in Mind: The Education of a Historian
Leon F. Litwack
Leon F. Litwack is Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American
History at the University of California, Berkeley. His many publications
include North of Slavery: The Free Negro in the Antebellum North
(1961),
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979)
more ...
The American Antiquarian Society is funded in part by the Massachusetts
Cultural Council, a state agency that supports public programs in the
arts, humanities, and sciences.
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Bill Meikle as Franklin
Photo by Susan Wilson
Sandra Gustafson
David McCullough
Photo by William B. McCullough
Leon Litwack
Photo by Peg Skorpinski
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