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Rochester Institute of Technology Honors Isaiah Thomas and AAS

September 14th, 2012, by James David Moran

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Each year, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) honors a person or an organization with the Isaiah Thomas Award in Publishing in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the industry. This year’s award honors AAS, in honor of the 200th anniversary of our founding by none other than  Isaiah Thomas himself. The award ceremony will [...]


Talk about AAS Bicentennial History

April 18th, 2012, by Elizabeth Watts Pope

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Tomorrow, Thursday, April 19 – 7:30 p.m. “Celebrating the American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012″ Philip F. Gura Philip Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of the just-published bicentennial history of the American Antiquarian Society. He will tell the story [...]


What’s in a Seal?, or A Seal for the Antiquarian

April 9th, 2012, by Caroline Sloat

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The Society has published two new books in this, its bicentennial year. The works are completely different and from the hands of different authors and designers, both of whom incorporated the Society’s seal on the back cover. With all this extra attention to this device, Abby Hutchinson, who edits the Society’s newsletter, Almanac, concluded that [...]


Recent Books Based on Research at AAS

November 4th, 2011, by Elizabeth Watts Pope

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Looking for something new to read?  Listed below are some suggestions, just a sampling of the most recent books to come across our desk that were researched here at AAS. If you have recently published a work based on research at the Society, let us know so we can add it to our list.  Information [...]


New “Almanac” Online

March 30th, 2011, by Abby Hutchinson

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The latest issue of the Almanac has been posted on the AAS website. Highlights include details on our spring lecture series, Adopt-a-Book (back for the fourth year), summer seminars, and the new New England Historic Site Collaborative. Looking ahead, an exciting conference will be held at AAS in November, Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early [...]


Hot Off the Press!

January 21st, 2011, by Abby Hutchinson

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Our new 2010 annual report is available online! Click here to catch up on the past year at AAS with over 70 photographs of people, acquisitions, and some of the lively programs that were held here. Our front and back cover photographs offer views seldom seen by visitors to Antiquarian Hall, since both were taken [...]


Join Us Tomorrow Night for “Random Notes from a Book History Bureaucrat”

November 15th, 2010, by Elizabeth Watts Pope

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This Tuesday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m., John B. Hench will be presenting the twenty-seventh Annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. John B. Hench is the retired vice president for collections and programs at AAS. His talk, “Random Notes [...]




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