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Navigation and Narrative: The Epic Seas of Luís de Camões

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

The John Carter Brown Library invites you to the Vasco da Gama lecture by Josiah Blackmore, a scholar of Iberian literature and culture and medieval and early modern Portuguese writing and Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. “Navigation and Narrative: […]

Far-flung Neighbors: The Cape Verde Islands…

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

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 […]

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Ten Things I Learned From Shakespeare

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, will give an evening lecture titled, "Ten Things I Learned from Shakespeare." Shakespeare was familiar with “wisdom traditions,” which in the early modern period included the practice of collecting maxims, proverbs and wise sayings. In this lecture, Witmore looks at Shakespeare’s plays themselves as a kind of […]

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Brothers at Arms

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

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 […]

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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

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. […]

Andrés Reséndez: The Other Slavery

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

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 […]

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Lawrence C. Wroth: Pioneer of the ‘Bibliographical Way’

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

A talk by Richard Ring, Head Curator & Librarian of the Watkinson Library Scholar-librarian Lawrence C. Wroth (1884-1970) was an acknowledged authority on colonial American history, bibliography, and cartography. A learned wordsmith who for 65 years generated seminal works on the history and print cultures of the Americas (North and South), Wroth directed the John […]

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Paths to the Great Swamp Fight, December 19, 1675

John Carter Brown Library, Reading Room Brown and George Streets, Main Green, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

The assault by the United New England Colonies on the Narragansett stockade in the Great Swamp (Quawawehunk) marked a turning point in Native American and English colonial sovereignty in southern New England. This talk will elucidate the cultural and political forces that collided in this momentous fight. The event is presented by William Simmons, Professor […]

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