Researchers can find a variety of primary and secondary sources documenting representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations through approximately 1900. The following research guide is intended to serve as a starting point for your research.
The General Catalog uses Library of Congress subject headings. Researchers can use the following terms:
Researchers can find a variety of primary and secondary sources documenting African American experiences through 1900 in North America. The following research guide is intended to serve as a starting point for your research.
Join us virtually as Bethany Hughes, in conversation with AAS councilor Wendy Bellion, discusses her first book, Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity (2024), in which she unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even more crucially, exclude them from full citizenship in the United States.
In this virtual program based on her new book, Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women (2025), Jennifer Rycenga, in conversation with Scott Casper, tells the story of a high school that became the most advanced form of higher education open to women of any race before it was forced to close because of white opposition. Located in Canterbury, Connecticut, the Canterbury Academy was established in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandall for "young Ladies and little Misses of color." Local white anger tried to prevent, and later
Held both in person and virtually, this symposium will highlight recent scholarship on Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), founder of the American Antiquarian Society. Speakers will share new insights on Thomas, as printer of The Massachusetts Spy, publisher, and antiquarian. The program commemorates 250 years since Thomas brought his printing press and newspaper to Worcester on April 16, 1775. Printed materials and artifacts associated with his life and work will be on view in Antiquarian Hall. Registration is free and open to the public.
Vincent Golden, curator of newspapers and periodicals at the American Antiquarian Society, discusses the size, format, and features of early American newspapers. Prepared for The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800, the 2021 Teacher Institute held at AAS.
In this video conversation, Vincent Golden, curator of newspapers and periodicals at the American Antiquarian Society, talks about how colonial American printers gathered, printed, and distributed the news. Prepared for The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800, the 2021 Teacher Institute held at AAS.
In this video, Elizabeth Watts Pope, the Society’s curator of books and digital collections, introduces who was involved in American colonial printing and what kinds of materials they produced. Prepared for The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800, the 2021 Teacher Institute held at AAS.
In this video, Elizabeth Watts Pope, the Society’s curator of books and digital collections, introduces when and where printing began in colonial America and how it developed over the course of the eighteenth century. Prepared for The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800, the 2021 Teacher Institute held at AAS.