This short, three-day course will introduce participants to these and related questions with a series of focused investigations centered within the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the …
To the extent possible in a week, the class will attend to the full lifecycle of handpress-era books, from the practices of early printers, booksellers, binders, and readers to the …
This online course will introduce students to the use of publishers’ and book trade archives and other records for the study of the creation, production, distribution, and reception of American …
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 27 July–1 August 2025 Format: in person, Princeton University in Princeton, NJ Fee: $1,495 Children have been a major audience for print throughout history, …
The course will start with the European invasion of the Americas in 1492, analyzing the Spanish Crown’s deployment of the press as a tool to establish sovereignty over Indigenous peoples …
Course Length: 12 hours Course Week: 24–25 June 2023 Format: in person, Indiana University in Bloomington, IN Fee: $800 The American West has long been a popular field for book …
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 16–21 July 2023 Format: in person, American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA Fee: $1,395 This seminar will explore the relationship between African American print …
Length: 6 hours Format: Online Designed for librarians, archivists, curators, and others with an interest in special collections and exhibitions focused on the global Black experience, this course provides an …
Length: 10 hours Format: Online This course will explore the history of textual technologies in the region now referred to as Spanish America, from the pre-contact period to the colonial …
Course Length: 10 hours Format: Online Even before Marisa Duarte’s Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country (2017) was published, Indigenous peoples have had a long and enduring history …
This course will focus on early African American print culture in the United States during the nineteenth century. We begin with an overview of American print culture studies generally, focusing …
The nature, form, and impact of the book changed dramatically with the introduction of photography, altering the way books would be made, would appear, and would help transform the communication …
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