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Applications Open for RBS Online Course on Publishers’ Archives

Are you interested in exploring how publishers’ archives illuminate the history of the American book? Apply now for Rare Book School’s Winter 2026 online course, H-95v: Reading Publishers’ Archives for the Study of the American Book, taught by noted bibliographer and book historian Michael Winship. This 22-hour course meets Mondays and Thursdays from 26 January to 26 February 2026. Apply by 1 December 2025 for first-round consideration; applications received after this date will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the course is full. […]

Position Announcement: Dietrich American Foundation Collection Fellow, Wesleyan University

The Dietrich American Foundation (DAF) collection, on long-term deposit from the DAF and administered by Wesleyan University’s Special Collections & Archives (SC&A), is a superb group of more than 1000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, printed ephemera, and related materials focusing on early America. Particular strengths include the Seven Years’ War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The collection includes one of four copies of the first printing of the Star Spangled Banner’s sheet music, Ben Franklin’s personal annotated copy of Second Protest, With a List of the Voters Against the Bill to Repeal the American Stamp Act… (1766), […]

See You at the Boston Book Fair!

If you’ll be at the 47th annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair from 7 to 9 November, please be sure to stop by the Rare Book School table on Cultural Row. We’ll be at Booth 427, with information about our courses, fellowships, job opportunities, and more.

RBS staff members Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Barbara Heritage, Zoe Langer, and Katie Hodges-Kluck will be at our table as well as on the show floor. We look forward to seeing you at the Hynes Convention Center in Downtown Boston soon! […]

RBS Now Accepting Applications for Mellon SoFCB Junior Fellows Program

Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applicants to its 2026 cohort of Junior Fellows. The SoFCB is a community of scholars working across disciplines to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects. Ten Junior Fellows will be selected to join the SoFCB in 2026; they may become Senior Fellows after completing two years of the fellowship’s required activities in good standing. The application deadline for the SoFCB Junior Fellows Program is Wednesday, 19 November 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET. […]