Tag: class visits

Reading into Valentines

This semester, AAS is partnering with a class from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, as students there learn about the production and popularity of valentines in America. In an upper level colloquium, Professor Laura Kalba and her students are exploring the connections between nineteenth-century print ephemera and the ephemerality of images in the digital era. "Be ...

Combining History, Graphic Art, and Modern America in the Classroom

This broadside was one of the items the students viewed during their visit to AAS. "Now completed and for sale! An impartial and correct history of the vigilantes of Montana Territory!" Virginia City, Mont.: D.W. Tilton & Co., 1866.

Recent researchers and other visitors to the American Antiquarian Society have had an opportunity to view a special exhibit: “From Frederick Douglass to Ferguson: Graphic Design Projects on Race in Modern America Inspired by the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society.” This is the story of the origins of that exhibit as the result of ...