John Carter Brown Library

The John Carter Brown Library invites you to the Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 25, at 5:30 p.m. in the MacMillan Reading Room of the JCB. Andrés Reséndez, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, will discuss The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. The Other […]

Join us for a Rhode Island Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project book talk with author and historian Wendy Warren, entitled, “New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America.” Wendy Warren reconfigures colonial history by sharing how New England’s economy derived its vitality from the profusion of slave-trading ships coursing through its ports. […]

Larrie Ferreiro, author of "Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It," explains how the success of the War of American Independence depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, which saw their strategic interests align with those of America in the fight against England. At […]

Join us for a lecture by maritime historian David Abulafia (Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge). In the fifteenth century, the Portuguese settled four separate archipelagoes, all of which were previously uninhabited, over a vast space of water in the eastern Atlantic. This meant that they created human societies from scratch on […]

This illustrated lecture by historian Victoria Johnson features her acclaimed new book, American Eden (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2018), which both the Wall Street Journal and Ron Chernow (Alexander Hamilton) have called “captivating.” When Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on a dueling ground in July 1804, they chose the same attending physician: David Hosack. Family […]

The John Carter Brown Library invites you to its annual Sonia Galletti Memorial lecture by Coll Thrush, Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. Urban and Indigenous histories have usually been treated as though they are mutually exclusive. Coll Thrush’s work, however, has argued that the two kinds of history are in fact […]