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Previous Summer Seminars 1985 - "The Making of Literate America: Diffusion of Culture Based on Printing, 1759-1850" (Stephen Botein) 1986 - "The American Common Reader: Printing, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Change, 1759-1840" (Stephen Botein) 1988 - "The Politics of Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Nineteenth-Century America" (David D. Hall) 1990 - "The American Renaissance: Critical and Bibliographical Perspectives" (David Reynolds & Michael Winship) 1991 - "Iconography and the Culture of the Book" 1992 - "Critical Methods in the History of the Book in the United States" (Michael Winship) "Bibliographical Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Book in the United States" (Michael Winship) 1993 - "Critical Methods in Bibliography and the History of the Book in the United States" (Michael Winship) 1994 - "Critical Methods in Bibliography and the History of the Book in the United States" (Michael Winship) "Regional Cultures of the Book, 1783-1861" (William J. Gilmore-Lehne) 1995 - "Reading Culture, Reading Books" (Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley) "The Business of Publishing: Reading Financial Records as a source for the History of the Book" (Michael Winship & William P. Barlow) 1997 - "Getting into Print" (Joan Shelley Rubin and Meredith L. McGill) 1998 - "Readers, Writers, and the Book Trades in Early America" (David D. Hall) 1999 - "Telling Lives, Telling Lies?: Biography, Autobiography, and Personal Narrative" (Ann Fabian) 2000 - "Teaching the History of the Book" (Scott Casper and Jeff Groves) 2001 - "Using Graphic Arts as Primary Sources" (Louis Masur) 2002 - "Books in American Lives, 1830-1890" (Louise L. Stevenson and Amy Thomas) 2003 - "Reading and Everyday Life: Books, Texts, Histories" (Barbara Hochman and David Stewart) 2004 - "Enriching American Studies Scholarship through the History of the Book" (Philip Gura) 2005 - "Publishing God: Printing, Preaching, and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America" (Michael Warner and Peter Stallybrass) 2006 - "Books and Their Readers to 1800 and Beyond" (Jay Fliegelman) 2007 - "Re-Reading the Early Republic: From Crèvecoeur to Cooper" (Wayne Franklin)  ~ About the 2007 seminar

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