The Library Company’s Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) is dedicated to promoting scholarship in, and public understanding of, the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, encompassing business, finance, commerce, manufacturing, labor, political economy, households and gender, and technology. PEAES programs include research fellowships for both junior and senior scholars, a monograph publication series with Johns Hopkins University Press, publication of conference proceedings as special issues of scholarly journals, seminars throughout the academic year, a regional survey of manuscript and printed resources in economic history, and the acquisition, cataloging, and conservation of thousands of printed materials to augment the Library Company’s existing rich collections. With its public programs such as the annual conference PEAES wishes to extend these resources to as wide an audience as possible, and to engender a broad discussion of the Program’s themes. For more information please visit www.librarycompany.org/Economics. |
Scholars and the public are increasingly aware of how important visual images can be for understanding the past. No longer considered secondary to written texts, visual images are taking their rightful place as primary evidence documenting how people lived. The Library Company has a rich collection of visual materials ranging from the most humble pieces of printed ephemera to large and stunning hand-colored plates in books and panoramic photographs. Through an ongoing series of events intended for collectors, dealers, historians, curators, and the interested public, the Visual Culture Program offers a forum for exchanging information and reflecting on historical images. For more information please visit: http://www.librarycompany.org/visualculture |
Generously funded by a grant from The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation, our new Program in African American History is focused on making the history of the African American experience in the United States more accessible to the public. This initiative builds on one of our greatest subject strengths; our Afro-Americana Collection comprises over 13,000 titles and 1,200 images from the mid-16th to the late-19th centuries. It includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, and graphics documenting slavery and abolitionism in the New World; descriptions of African American life throughout the Americas; and the printed works of black individuals and organizations. For almost forty years, the Afro-Americana Collection has helped nurture and sustain the research and scholarship that has firmly established African American studies within academia and popular culture, and we look forward to this new initiative continuing and expanding that tradition. For more information please visit www.librarycompany.org/paah |
This dynamic four-week seminar will bring together fourteen school teachers and two graduate students in the summer of 2012 for close study of the abolitionist movement between the American Revolution and Civil War. To bring abolitionism alive, we will survey an exciting range of scholarly literature and primary source documents on abolitionism. We’ll discuss key themes -- including slave rebellions, the rise of black abolitionism, the prospects for inter-racial activism, women’s key role as abolitionists, the Underground Railroad, and Lincoln’s emancipation visions during the Civil War era, among others -- and talk about teaching strategies, films and websites that deal with abolitionism as a historical topic. The seminar will also welcome several terrific guest scholars, including Christopher Brown, Scott Hancock, Stacey Robertson, and James Brewer Stewart, each of whom will discuss cutting edge research in the field. Finally, we’ve planned several fieldtrips to some famous abolitionist sites in the greater Philadelphia area, including black abolitionist Richard Allen’s Mother Bethel AME Church, Underground Railroad Sites near Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, and a black soldier’s cemetery in the town of Gettysburg. We hope seminar the seminar is both engaging and exciting. For more information please visit www.librarycompany.org/neh
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