Past Programs & Events

Event Title Date Sort ascending Video
"The Greatest Book of Its Kind": A Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin 9/24/1999
The Shaping of Historical Memory: Collecting the Artifacts of America's Past, 1790-1840 9/01/1999
Telling Lives, Telling Lies?: Biography, Autobiography, and Personal Narrative 6/06/1999
Reading for the Enslaved, Writing for the Free: Reflections on Liberty and Literacy 11/06/1998
Seeing America First: Exploration and Imagination in North America, 1500-1900 9/01/1998
Readers, Writers, and the Book Trades in Early America 6/01/1998
Reconstructing the Nation: Frances Harper, Charlotte Forten, and the Racial Politics of Periodical Publications 10/03/1997
Accounts of the Self: Autobiography and Personal Narrative in Antebellum America 9/01/1997
Getting into Print 6/09/1997
Free Grace, Free Books, Free Riders: The Economics of Religious Publishing in Early Nineteenth-Century America 10/15/1996
Revolutionary Narratives: Memory and Desire in Antebellum America 9/01/1996
Designing A Past for the Present: Women Writing Women's History in Antebellum America 10/27/1995
Wilderness Views: Nature as Other, Self, and Enterprise in American Culture c.1776-1900 9/01/1995
The Business of Publishing: Reading Financial Records as a source for the History of the Book 6/21/1995
Reading Culture, Reading Books 6/01/1995
The Rise and "Fall" of the Great American Novel 11/04/1994
Children's Books and Childhood Reading in Early America 9/01/1994
Regional Cultures of the Book, 1783-1861 6/12/1994
Critical Methods in Bibliography and the History of the Book in the United States 6/01/1994
Truth or Consequences: Putting Limits on Limits 11/04/1993