Join us virtually or in person to hear author Zara Anishanslin discuss her most recent book The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution (2025).
Join us virtually or in person to hear Peter H. Wood reflect on his seminal work, Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740. First published in 1974, Black Majority marked a breakthrough in our understanding of early American history. This landmark book chronicles the crucial formative years of North America’s wealthiest and most tormented British colony. It explores how West African familiarity with rice determined the Lowcountry economy and how a skilled but enslaved labor force formed its own distinctive language and culture.
The American Antiquarian Society is proud to host a research symposium on Saturday, September 29, 2012, titled "Poetry & Print in Early America." This event is being held to mark the publication of A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820, compiled by Roger Stoddard and edited by David Whitesell and published by Penn State University Press. Both the publication of this landmark bibliography and the symposium are sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America.
Researchers can find a variety of primary and secondary sources documenting representations and lived experiences of ethnicity and immigration through approximately 1900 in North America. The following research guide is intended to serve as a starting point for your research.
Researchers can find a variety of primary and secondary sources for studying North American local history and genealogy. The following research guide is intended to serve as a starting point for your research.
The General Catalog uses genre/form terms to make findable thousands sources for local history and genealogy. Researchers can use the following terms:
Researchers can find a variety of primary and secondary sources documenting representations and lived experiences of disabled Americans through approximately 1900 in North America. The following research guide is intended to serve as a starting point for your research.
The General Catalog uses genre/form terms to make findable thousands of works for disability studies through approximately 1900. Researchers can use the following terms:
In this virtual program Sarah Gold McBride discusses her recent book, Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America (2025), which illuminates a period in American history when hair indexed belonging in some ways that may seem strange—but in other ways all too familiar—today.
Between May 21 and June 6, 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison took a trip together through Upstate New York and parts of New England on horseback. This "northern journey" came at a moment of tension for the new nation, one in whose founding these Virginians and political allies had played key roles. In this hybrid AAS program, Louis Masur discusses the trip, which is detailed in his new book A Northern Journey: Jefferson, Madison and the Forging of a Friendship (July 2025).
Join us in person or virtually to hear biographer Richard Kopley discuss his new book Edgar Allan Poe: A Life (2025), followed by a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Megan Marshall.