Upcoming Programs & Events

AAS programs include a variety of in-person, virtual, and hybrid public programs. Advance registration is required.

Some seminars have limited space and require advance application. Please check each event's page for more information.

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Perspectives from the Collection: The Bay Psalm Book
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
4:00-5:00pm EST
Virtual
American Laughter, American Fury with Eran Zelnik
Thursday, January 23, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EST
Virtual
Library and Archives Canada / C-029977
The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EST
Virtual
Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Thursday, February 27, 2025
2:00-3:00pm EST
Virtual
The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America's Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
Thursday, March 20, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States
Thursday, March 27, 2025
2:00-3:00pm EDT
Virtual
Start the Press! Celebrating the Newspaper That Sparked a Revolution
Saturday, April 12, 2025
12:00-4:00pm EDT
The Declaration in Script and Print with John Bidwell
Thursday, April 17, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Inaugural Lapides Lecture with Justin G. Schiller
Thursday, May 1, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas
Thursday, May 29, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
Sex, Gender, and Print
Sunday, June 8-Friday, June 13, 2025
All day
Seminar
A Plausible Man with Susanna Ashton
Thursday, July 24, 2025
7:00-8:00pm EDT
Hybrid
19th-Century American Photography in the World
Sunday, July 27-Friday, August 1, 2025
All day
Seminar