John Garcia
@jgarc.bsky.social
AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Call for Applications: The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print, Jan. 11-15. ‘27 at the American Antiquarian Society (deadline: Oct. 15 ‘26)
August 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Call for Applications: The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print, Jan. 11-15. ‘27 at the American Antiquarian Society (deadline: Oct. 15 ‘26)
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✨John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social speaks tomorrow at 5:15pm EST - hope that you can make it!
Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom.
Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
(Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom.
Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
(Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
February 16, 2026 at 2:57 AM
✨John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social speaks tomorrow at 5:15pm EST - hope that you can make it!
Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom.
Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
(Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom.
Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
(Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
February 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy
December 12, 2024 at 3:16 AM
CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy
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This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST
📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”
Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print.
Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Hope to see you there!
📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”
Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print.
Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Hope to see you there!
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST
📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”
Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print.
Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Hope to see you there!
📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”
Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print.
Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Hope to see you there!
Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
Folks in the U of Miami area—I’ll be giving a lecture on Tuesday, Sept 9 about Black participation in early American print shops, paper mills, and libraries at the Kislak Center.
Slavery and the Making of the Early American Book
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August 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Folks in the U of Miami area—I’ll be giving a lecture on Tuesday, Sept 9 about Black participation in early American print shops, paper mills, and libraries at the Kislak Center.
Next week! Christopher Looby delivers the James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Register to attend in-person at AAS or virtually.
#bookhistory #C19
#bookhistory #C19
June 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Next week! Christopher Looby delivers the James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Register to attend in-person at AAS or virtually.
#bookhistory #C19
#bookhistory #C19
Next Tuesday 4/15 is the deadline to apply for this summer’s CHAViC seminar on Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World. Don’t miss it!
April 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Next Tuesday 4/15 is the deadline to apply for this summer’s CHAViC seminar on Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World. Don’t miss it!
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April 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!
March 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!
Next week! Virtual Book Talk featuring Ben Bascom’s Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early U.S. Thurs. March 27 at 2pm EST. Link in comments to register.
March 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Next week! Virtual Book Talk featuring Ben Bascom’s Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early U.S. Thurs. March 27 at 2pm EST. Link in comments to register.
Preview of the AAS summer seminar on 19th-cent. American Photography. Applications due next month—and tuition scholarships are available for junior scholars.
Summer Seminar Preview: CHAViC 2025
YouTube video by AmericanAntiquarian
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March 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Preview of the AAS summer seminar on 19th-cent. American Photography. Applications due next month—and tuition scholarships are available for junior scholars.
Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society.
Link with more info in comments.
Link with more info in comments.
January 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society.
Link with more info in comments.
Link with more info in comments.
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
January 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
I just love how this Increase Mather portrait is cordoned off like it’s a crime scene
December 13, 2024 at 7:35 PM
I just love how this Increase Mather portrait is cordoned off like it’s a crime scene
Fellowship alert: apply for fellowships for scholars and artists to research in the Kislak Center at the University of Miami. Holdings in early Americas, Indigenous history, colonization and exploration, Latin America. Good people there.
Link in comments.
Link in comments.
December 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Fellowship alert: apply for fellowships for scholars and artists to research in the Kislak Center at the University of Miami. Holdings in early Americas, Indigenous history, colonization and exploration, Latin America. Good people there.
Link in comments.
Link in comments.
Worth reposting for new folks in my feed: this THURSDAY at 4pm est—register to watch Sara Johnson speak about her amazing work on slavery, colonialism, and the history of the book in the life of a French intellectual from the era of the Haitian Revolution. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9823
November 20, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Worth reposting for new folks in my feed: this THURSDAY at 4pm est—register to watch Sara Johnson speak about her amazing work on slavery, colonialism, and the history of the book in the life of a French intellectual from the era of the Haitian Revolution. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9823
Next week: AAS virtual book talk featuring Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. 11/21 at 4pm EST. Link to register in comments
November 11, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Next week: AAS virtual book talk featuring Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. 11/21 at 4pm EST. Link to register in comments
Don’t miss out! Next Monday, July 15, Joseph Rezek gives the Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture on “Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print” at the American Antiquarian Society.
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9400
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9400
Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print | American Antiquarian Society
www.americanantiquarian.org
July 12, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Don’t miss out! Next Monday, July 15, Joseph Rezek gives the Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture on “Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print” at the American Antiquarian Society.
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9400
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9400
Tomorrow, Thurs. 2pm EST: Virtual Book Talk roundtable with presentations on the history of bookstores, the rare book trade, and women book collectors. Link to register: www.americanantiquarian.org/node/8568
May 29, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Tomorrow, Thurs. 2pm EST: Virtual Book Talk roundtable with presentations on the history of bookstores, the rare book trade, and women book collectors. Link to register: www.americanantiquarian.org/node/8568
Next week! Lara Langer Cohen’s Virtual Book Talk on her 2023 book Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the 19th-Century United States.
Register here: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
Register here: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
April 18, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Next week! Lara Langer Cohen’s Virtual Book Talk on her 2023 book Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the 19th-Century United States.
Register here: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
Register here: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...