Examples of Native American and African music in the Americas from this past summer's JCB Fellows' 50th Conference.
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Seth Rockman of the Brown University's History Department spoke at the JCB on September 13, 2012. See the entire lecture here.
The collection of the John Carter Brown Library contain materials from 1492 to circa 1825 and many of the materials have been subjected to arduous conditions prior to their acquisition by the library. We here present our conservation program...
Charles C. Mann gave the annual Galleti lecture on February 13, 2012. He spoke about his recently released book. Ted Widmer, Director of the JCB, spoke to Mann before the event in the Simon Bolivar Room.
CAN maps talk? Just ask Susan Danforth, curator of maps and prints at the John Carter Brown Library, who explains why maps historically have been more than just representations of the Earth's surface. This video was created to...