John Bidwell

Princeton, NJ
United States

Elected to AAS

April 1987

Fellowships

1978-79: Fred Harris Daniels Fellowship
Project: A Biographical Directory of American Papermakers, 1690-1830
1994-95: AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
Project: Printing Supplies in Colonial America
2020-21: Reese Fellowship
Project: The Declaration of Independence: Prints, Broadsides, and Facsimiles

Based on Fellowship Research

The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024

Public Programs

The Declaration in Script and Print with John Bidwell

April 17, 2025

Watch on YouTube

American History in Image and Text

November 2, 1988

AAS Proceedings

The Size of the Sheet in America: Paper-Moulds Manufactured by N. & D. Sellers of Philadelphia. October 1977 , Volume 87, Part 2
The Publication of Joel Barlow's Columbiad. October 1983 , Volume 93, Part 2
Jacob Israel Zeitlin. October 1987 , Volume 97, Part 2
American History in Image and Text. October 1988 , Volume 98, Part 2
Leonard Benjamin Schlosser. October 1991 , Volume 101, Part 2
Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. October 2001 , Volume 111, Part 2