American Antiquarian Society

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. Collections include books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, manuscripts, music, graphic arts, and local histories.

Recent Acquisition
Patriotic Genre Print
This lithograph depicting a girl dressed up as a soldier flanked by two boys is a charming genre print. more ...

Stacks 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.

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

Holiday Closing
July 4 : The library will closed in observance of Independence Day
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TAH Summer Institute
July 28 - August 1 : Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" will be led by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar
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TAH Summer Institute
August 11-15 : The Declaration of Independence will be led by William Fowler
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