Hawaiiana at the American Antiquarian Society includes an assortment of more than thirty rare engravings produced by students at the Lahainaluna Seminary on the island of Maui. An intaglio press was introduced at this institution about 1834 and was used to teach students the skills of copperplate engraving and printing. The students produced maps, landscape views, portraits, and depictions of native floral.
The history of America has always been intimately entwined with the history of communications media—and that has always been changing. This exhibition broadly explores the interconnectedness of American news media, in all its formats, with changes in technology, business, politics, society, and community from 1730 to 1865.
This online exhibition effectively creates a digital archive of several Algonquian-language printed books and pamphlets, or wussukwhonk as they are called in the Nipmuc language. The manuscript collections featured here include town records, land deeds, and account books.
This exhibition tells the story of Prang during the height of his career in chromolithography during the second half of the nineteenth century.
This exhibition explores the contributions of those who labored in translating and printing works in the Algonquian family of native languages.
Twenty-eight years after he published Original Meanings, Jack Rakove reflects on how debates over deciphering the original meaning of the Constitution’s many clauses now dominate American constitutional jurisprudence. He proposes that while one might assume such inquiries would be inherently historical in nature──asking what the framers of the Constitution intended particular clauses to mean, or what its ratifiers or early commentators understood these provisions to imply──the application of these inquiries today has in fact taken another course.
Led by David Jaffee
The Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American Antiquarian Society is pleased to announce that its first summer seminar will be held in Worcester from June 15 to 19, 2009. The topic of the seminar will be focused on Interpreting Visual Materials for Research and Teaching.
Led by Katherine C. Grier
The Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) encourages and facilitates the use and understanding of popular images by scholars in a variety of disciplines including American studies, gender studies, history, art history, literature, and theatre. The 2013 Summer Seminar, Domestic Impressions: The Visual and Material Culture of the American Family Home, 1750-1890 will be held July 7-12, 2013 at the American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA.
The Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) facilitates the use and understanding of popular images by scholars and their students in many disciplines — American studies, history, art history, and literature. Sessions at this summer seminar will focus on the history of print production in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; interpreting portrait paintings, prints, and photographs; "reading" illustrations in popular journals; and related topics.