Overview of several types of 18th-century paper ephemera that include pictorial design elements. Broadsides, trade cards, and billheads are among the types of ephemera featured. Prepared for The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800, the 2021 Teacher Institute held at AAS.
In this video, Lauren Hewes, the Society’s vice president for collections, describes the primary printing processes used in the 18th century to create and disseminate visual material, including prints, maps, ephemera, and book and newspaper illustrations. Prepared for The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800, the 2021 Teacher Institute held at AAS.
A small exhibition of American Antiquarian Society artifacts relating to the War of 1812 will be on display in Reading Room throughout the day.
-Session Descriptions and Presenter Biographies-
Note: Concurrent session order is subject to change.
Plenary Talk 1:
Donald C. Carleton, Jr. -- "1763: the Treaty, the Proclamation, and the Future of a Continent"
Nina Zannieri, Executive Director, Paul Revere Memorial Association
Robert Shimp, Research and Adult Programs Director, Paul Revere Memorial Association
Plus all symposium speakers
Chair: Lauren B. Hewes, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, AAS
Theresa Fairbanks-Harris, Senior Conservator for Works on Paper, Yale University Art Gallery – The Evolution of Paul Revere’s Prints of the Bloody Massacre
Chair: Rebecca M. Rosen, Hollins University
Jennifer Anderson, Associate Professor of History, Stony Brook University (SUNY) – Paul Revere and Sourcing Silver in Early America
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America’s indigenous peoples – a cultural earthquake so profound that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. This lecture, based upon the book Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America, explores how Native American’s embracing of firearms transformed their cultures and empowered them to pursue their interests and defend their political and economic autonomy for over two centuries.
Cosponsored by the Franklin M. Loew Lecture Series at Becker College
America’s foundational text famously declares: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But what did these concepts mean to the people living at the time they were first written? How have they been understood over the centuries since? And today, do we still see these as “self-evident truths?” If so, have we realized the full potential of their promise?
Challenging discrimination is not easy; Lucy Stone was never one to take the easy road. The first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree, Lucy was an ardent supporter of human rights. Always fierce, her belief that women and men be equal was evident in both her political and personal endeavors. Her message inspired thousands to join the suffrage movement; even Susan B. Anthony credits Lucy’s impassioned speeches for her involvement. As a scholar, Lucy studied Greek and Hebrew, insisting that ancient scriptures had been mistranslated to objectify women.