Summer Seminars in the History of the Book

These annual seminars have been successful in assembling a stimulating range of persons as both faculty and matriculants and putting them in touch with AAS library collections and, just as importantly, with each other. Faculty and participants of the first summer seminar (1985) are pictured to the right.

Year	Seminar Title	Syllabus Link	Seminar Leader(s)
2022	Black Print, Black Activism, Black Study		Derrick R. Spires, Benjamin Fagan
2017	Other Languages, Other Americas	Syllabus	Anna Brickhouse, Kirsten Silva Gruesz
2016	Subscription Publishing in America	Syllabus	Michael Winship
2015	Reading Children	Syllabus	Patricia Crain
2014	Books in the Larger World of Objects	Syllabus	David Brewer, Lynn Festa
2013	Indigenous Cultures of Print in Early America	Syllabus	Philip Round
2012	African American Cultures of Print	Syllabus	Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Stein
2011	Encountering Revolution: Print Culture, Politics, and the British American Loyalists	Syllabus	Ed Larkin, Phil Gould
2010	The Global American South and Early American Print Culture	Syllabus	Jeannine DeLombard, Lloyd Pratt
2009	Book History and Media History		Lisa Gitelman, Meredith L. McGill
2008	The Newspaper and the Culture of Print in the Early American Republic		David Paul Nord, John Nerone
2007	Re-Reading the Early Republic: From Crevecoeur to Cooper		Wayne Franklin, Jeffrey Walker, Lance Schachterle
2006	Books and Their Readers to 1800 and Beyond	Syllabus	Jay Fliegelman, Leah Price
2005	Publishing God: Printing, Preaching, and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America	Syllabus	Peter Stallybrass, Michael Warner
2004	Enriching American Studies Scholarship through the History of the Book		Philip Gura, James N. Green, Eliza Richards
2003	Reading and Everyday Life: Books, Texts, Histories		Barbara Hochman, David Stewart
2002	Books in American Lives, 1830-1890		Louise L. Stevenson
2001	Using Graphic Arts as Primary Sources		Louis Masur, Georgia Barnhill
2000	Teaching the History of the Book		Scott Casper, Jeff Groves
1999	Telling Lives, Telling Lies?: Biography, Autobiography, and Personal Narrative		Ann Fabian
1998	Readers, Writers, and the Book Trades in Early America		David D. Hall
1997	Getting into Print		Joan Shelley Rubin, Meredith L. McGill
1995	The Business of Publishing: Reading Financial Records as a source for the History of the Book		Michael Winship, William P. Barlow
1995	Reading Culture, Reading Books		Mary Kelley
1994	Critical Methods in Bibliography and the History of the Book in the United States		Michael Winship
1994	Regional Cultures of the Book, 1783-1861		William J. Gilmore-Lehne
1993	Critical Methods in Bibliography and the History of the Book in the United States		Michael Winship
1992	Bibliographical Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Book in the United States		Michael Winship
1992	Critical Methods in the History of the Book in the United States		Michael Winship
1991	Iconography and the Culture of the Book		William Moffett, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, William Gilmore-Lehne, Thomas Leonard, Carol Wenzel-Rideout, Allison Scott, Sara Black
1990	The American Renaissance: Critical and Bibliographical Perspectives		David S. Reynolds, Michael Winship
1989	"Work in Progress" Conference		David Watters, Joan Hoy, Ann Braude, Richard John, Isabelle Lahuu, Michael Turner, David Hall
1988	The Politics of Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Nineteenth-Century America		David D. Hall
1987	Teaching the History of the Book: Methods and Concepts		Robert A. Gross, David Hall, Alice Schreyer, Terry Belanger
1986	The American Common Reader: Printing, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Change, 1759-1840		Stephen Botein
1985	The Making of Literate America: Diffusion of Culture Based on Printing, 1759-1850		Stephen Botein