The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is an independent research library founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Collections include books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, manuscripts, music, graphic arts, and local histories.

Recent Acquisition
Manuscript Periodical
Holland, R. "Manhattan Sun." 1847-1848. Holland was likely a young man when these two issues in very different formats were produced. more ...

Free public tours of Antiquarian Hall, the Society's library building, are given every Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The tour lasts about one hour.

Vignettes @ AAS
Here we present stories from inside the library to illustrate the serendipity that can occur under our generous dome. The Gentleman in the Purple Waistcoat. more ...

Preview the new AAS online resource, Northern Visions of Race, Region and Reform in the Press and Letters of Freedmen and Freedmen's Teachers in the Civil War Era, created by Professor Lucia Knoles of Assumption College working from primary resources at the American Antiquarian Society. It will soon be available on the AAS website

For a complete listing of upcoming events at AAS, please view our online calendar of events

Public Program
May 13 : Preserving the Flash Press by Patricia Cline Cohen, Tim Gilfoyle, and Helen Horowitz
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Academic Seminar
May 15 : Daniel A. Cohen will present Fanatical Protestants, Treacherous Catholics, Faithful Muslims: Political Re-Visions of the Charlestown Convent Riot, 1835-1855
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Summer Seminar
June 18-23 : The Newspaper and the Culture of Print in the Early American Republic will be led by David Paul Nord and John Nerone. The deadline for applications has passed.
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May 6, 2008
Emloyment opportunity for a job as a computer scanner is announced.

April 29, 2008
Update on the first annual Adopt-A-Book Evening

April 22, 2008
A call for papers for Corpus americanus: Deciphering Bodies in Early America, the third James L. and Shirley A. Draper Graduate Student Conference on Early American Studies at the University of Connecticut and the American Antiquarian Society, has been announced.

April 13, 2008
The April 2008 issue of Common-Place is available online.

March 10, 2008
Emloyment opportunity for an image processor is announced.

January 25, 2008
Volume 73 of The Book is now available online.

January 24, 2008
Editor sought for Common-Place

January 23, 2008
Volume 74 of Almanac is now available online.

December 6, 2007
Frequently Asked Questions are now answered online.

October 18, 2007
We are pleased to bring you a new search engine for Early American Elections Returns 1787-1825. Please visit the A New Nation Votes site. Brought to you by AAS, Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives and the National Endowment for the Humanities.