External Photo, AAS 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.

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2011 Summer Seminar

2011 Summer Seminar Announced

Philip Gould and Ed Larkin will lead Encountering Revolution: Print Culture, Politics, and the British American Loyalists from June 13-17.

AAS Fellow

Download Fellowship Applications

Applications for AAS fellowships are now online. The Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship and Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers applications are due in October.

Reading Exhibition

A Place of Reading

The new online exhibition A Place of Reading uses images and objects from the AAS collections to illuminate the spaces where reading happened in early America.

Mary Kelley

HBA Celebrated in Washington

A History of the Book in America editors David D. Hall, Scott E. Casper, Mary C. Kelley, and Joan Rubin discuss the project upon its completion.

Books as Weapons

Books and Articles

The March through June list of recent scholarship based on research at AAS is now available.

Manuscript Collection Descriptions

Manuscript Collection Descriptions

Collection descriptions for all processed manuscript collections with contents lists are available as pdfs.

American Insurgents

AAS Librarian's Diary Published

Accompanied by more than 160 illustrations, the newly transcribed text of Christopher Columbus Baldwin's 1829-1835 diary is now available.

American Insurgents

Insurgents and Patriots

Drawing from his new book American Insurgents, American Patriots, historian T.H. Breen presented "A Rumor that Almost Sparked a Revolution in 1774."

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Monday, Sept. 6 : Closed

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Thursday, Sept. 16 : Nathaniel Philbrick will present Last Stand at the Little Bighorn: A Centennial Catastrophe

 

CHAViC Conference

November 12-13 : Historical Prints—Fact and Fiction

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