Library Company of Philadelphia Upcoming Events
Current Exhibition in the Library Company’s
Louise Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery:
Remnants of Everyday Life: Historical Ephemera in the
Workplace, Street, and Home
Exhibition on View:
May 1–December 13, 2013
Gallery Open
Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
The exhibition and its accompanying programming are supported by funds from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the
Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Monday, July 22, 2013
Reception, 5:30 p.m.
Program, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League
James Oakes will discuss his book Freedom National, a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually, when it became a military necessity, a war to end slavery. These two aims—"Liberty and Union, one and inseparable"—were intertwined in Republican policy from the very start of the war. Freedom National was awarded the 2013 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Oakes is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Unmediated History:
The Scholarly Study of 19th-Century Ephemera
September 19-20 2013
The Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia has joined forces with The Ephemera Society of America to present this conference, which seeks to further acknowledge and promote printed and graphic ephemera not only as sources of striking illustrative images, but also as primary evidence in the reconstruction of popular movements and visual cultures.
Visit: http://www.librarycompany.org/visualculture/2013conference/
City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Reception, 5:30 p.m.
Program, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
In City Water, City Life, historian Carl Smith explores the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. Through an analysis of a broad range of sources, Smith shows how the discussion, design, and use of waterworks reveal how Americans framed their conceptions of urban democracy and how they understood the natural and the built environment, individual health and the well-being of society, and the qualities of time and history. Smith is the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English & American Studies at Northwestern University.
Ligaments: Everyday Connections of Colonial Economies
Thirteenth Annual PEAES Conference
Thursday, October 24 - Friday, October 25, 2013
Visit: http://www.librarycompany.org/Economics/2013Conference/
For more information on these events please call 215-546-3181 or email Alison McMenamin, amcmenamin@librarycompany.org.
The Library Company will observe the following holidays in 2013:
New Year's - Tuesday, January 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Monday, January 21
Presidents’ Day - Monday, February 18
Good Friday - Friday, March 29
Memorial Day - Monday, May 27
Independence Day - Thursday, July 4
Labor Day - Monday, September 2
Thanksgiving - Thursday, November 28 & Friday, November 29
Christmas -Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25
For more information and to RSVP for these events please visit http://www.librarycompany.org/events/index.htm or call 215-546-3181.