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Press Releases

2025

June 11 - New collection of nineteenth-century jail records uncovers hidden lives

March 3 - American Antiquarian Society receives gift of rare eighteenth-and nineteenth-century ephemera

2024

October 21 - Thirty-five individuals elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society

June 10 - Major digitization project makes texts written by children in the 1800s publicly available

May 29 - First newspaper published in West Virginia acquired by the American Antiquarian Society

April 29 -  Twenty-nine individuals elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society

2023

July 25 - The musical life of poet Emily Dickinson to be featured in American Antiquarian Society program on Tuesday, July 25

April 25 - Fresno State students gain research experience through collaboration with American Antiquarian Society

March 3 - Early American book specialist named Director of Scholarly Programs and Partnerships at the American Antiquarian Society

2022

October 3 -  $300,000 from Save America’s Treasures to help repair National Historic Landmark Antiquarian Hall

 

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