'Magnalia Historiae Libri Americana'; Or, How AAS Brought the History of the Book Into the New Millennium.

In the twenty-second annual Wiggins Lecture, Gura traces the evolution of the program in the history of the book at the Society. He provides an overview of the lectures, showing how David D. Hall's inaugural lecture offered what has turned out to be a road map for the inauguration of a new field of study both at the Society and in the academy, generally. Gura reviews subsequent lectures in the series, summer seminars, and key publications concluding with a look into the future based on the premise that the history of the book, properly conceived and accomplished, leads to nothing less than new ways to view the history of American society and culture.