Summer Seminar in the History of the Book | American Antiquarian Society

A signature program at AAS since 1985, the annual PHBAC seminars have gathered instructors and participants at the Society, putting them in touch with the AAS collections, the curatorial staff, and, just as importantly, with one another. The seminars have investigated topics such as Indigenous book history, nineteenth-century African American print culture, material religion, the economics of printing and publishing, the American Revolution, and hemispheric, and multilingual approaches to the book in the Americas. The seminars are often led by two co-instructors. Past seminar leaders include Derrick Spires and Benjamin Fagan, Kirsten Silva Gruesz and Anna Brickhouse, Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein, Meredith McGill and Lisa Gitelman, Scott Casper and Jeff Groves, and Peter Stallybrass, and Michael Warner.

Event Date	Leaders / Presenters	Title
6/21 - 26/2026	Kathryn Walkiewicz , Kelly Wisecup	Paper Relations: Histories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures
6/8 - 13/2025	Jordan Alexander Stein , Greta LaFleur	Sex, Gender, and Print
7/14 - 19/2024	Rodrigo Lazo , Patrick M. Erben	Comparative Migrations and Multilingual Cultures of Print
6/25 - 29/2023	Christopher Allison , Sonia Hazard	Material Religion: Objects, Images, Books
7/25 - 29/2022	Derrick R. Spires , Benjamin Fagan	Black Print, Black Activism, Black Study
7/9 - 14/2017	Anna Brickhouse , Kirsten Silva Gruesz	Other Languages, Other Americas
6/13 - 17/2016	Michael B. Winship	Subscription Publishing in America
6/21 - 26/2015	Patricia A. Crain	Reading Children
6/15 - 20/2014	David Brewer , Lynn Festa	Books in the Larger World of Objects
6/16 - 21/2013	Phillip Round	Indigenous Cultures of Print in Early America
7/9 - 13/2012	Lara Langer Cohen , Jordan Alexander Stein	African American Cultures of Print
6/13 - 17/2011	Edward J. Larkin , Philip B. Gould	Encountering Revolution: Print Culture, Politics, and the British American Loyalists
10/13 - 18/2010	Jeannine M. DeLombard , Lloyd P. Pratt	The Global American South and Early American Print Culture
6/22 - 26/2009	Lisa L. Gitelman , Meredith L. McGill	Book History and Media History
6/18 - 23/2008	David Paul Nord , John Nerone	The Newspaper and the Culture of Print in the Early American Republic
6/18 - 22/2007	Wayne S. Franklin , Jeffrey B. Walker , Lance E. Schachterle	Re-Reading the Early Republic: From Crevecoeur to Cooper
6/12 - 15/2006	Leah Price , Jay Fliegelman	Books and Their Readers to 1800 and Beyond
6/12 - 17/2005	Peter B. Stallybrass , Michael D. Warner	Publishing God: Printing, Preaching, and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America
6/20 - 24/2004	Philip F. Gura , James N. Green , Eliza Richards	Enriching American Studies Scholarship through the History of the Book
6/15 - 20/2003	Barbara A. Hochman , David Stewart	Reading and Everyday Life: Books, Texts, Histories
6/9 - 13/2002	Louise L. Stevenson	Books in American Lives, 1830-1890
6/3 - 5/2001	Louis P. Masur , Georgia Brady Barnhill	Using Graphic Arts as Primary Sources
6/1/2000	Scott E. Casper , Jeffrey D. Groves	Teaching the History of the Book
6/6 - 11/1999	Ann V. Fabian	Telling Lives, Telling Lies?: Biography, Autobiography, and Personal Narrative
6/1/1998	David D. Hall	Readers, Writers, and the Book Trades in Early America
6/9 - 15/1997	Joan Shelley Rubin , Meredith L. McGill	Getting into Print
6/21 - 23/1995	William Pusey Barlow Jr.	The Business of Publishing: Reading Financial Records as a source for the History of the Book
6/1/1995	Mary C. Kelley	Reading Culture, Reading Books
6/12 - 17/1994	William J. Gilmore-Lehne	Regional Cultures of the Book, 1783-1861
6/1/1994	Michael B. Winship	Critical Methods in Bibliography and the History of the Book in the United States
6/2 - 8/1993	Michael B. Winship	Critical Methods in Bibliography and the History of the Book in the United States
6/1/1992	Michael B. Winship	Critical Methods in the History of the Book in the United States
6/1/1992	Michael B. Winship	Bibliographical Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Book in the United States
6/14 - 15/1991	William Moffett	Iconography and the Culture of the Book
6/10 - 19/1990	David S. Reynolds , Michael B. Winship	The American Renaissance: Critical and Bibliographical Perspectives
6/27/1989	David Watters	"Work in Progress" Conference
6/18 - 28/1988	David D. Hall	The Politics of Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Nineteenth-Century America
6/14 - 24/1986	Stephen Botein	The American Common Reader: Printing, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Change, 1759-1840
6/23 - 7/2/1985	Stephen Botein	The Making of Literate America: Diffusion of Culture Based on Printing, 1759-1850