John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026JCB Reads 2026-7 kicks off this week with a talk by Ken Banks, author of A Sea of Possibilities: The Revolutionary Atlantic World of Captain Thomas Allen! Join us at noon this Thursday, October 1 online. Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r... 042
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Check out all the latest from the JCB in our September newsletter! conta.cc/3TKxTd4conta.ccJCB September 2026 NewsletterEmail from John Carter Brown Library Photo of the interior doors of the JCB courtesy of Rythum Vinoben. Dear friends, There is perhaps no time of year when we feel the rhythms of campus life more inte 020
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Brown 2026 invites you to join us Friday, October 2 for the presentation of research conducted by our Visiting Faculty Fellows. Details are available at brown2026democracy.brown.edu/events 010
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The JCB will close at 12:45 p.m. tomorrow, September 23, and will reopen at 4:30 to host a Brown 2026 Cross Talk, part of a series of moderated conversations featuring faculty from across campus. This week's topic is violence. Details and registration at events.brown.edu/event/335954... 000
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026October will be a busy month at the JCB! Registration is now live for all of these events for both in-person and remote attendees. Check out all the latest at jcblibrary.org. 020
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There's lot happening at the JCB, including class visits, research appointments, and our current exhibition. We'll close early Wednesday to host a Cross Talk on Violence featuring Brown faculty from several fields. (events.brown.edu/event/335954...) Be sure to stop by and visit us! 000
Reposted by John Carter Brown LibraryKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Family history and genealogy, media juicing up controversy and fawning over science while failing to get that yes the historical analysis was conclusive. I couldn't not write about this! Shorter: just read @agordonreed.bsky.social. karinwulf.com/trove/the-fa...karinwulf.comThe Family History of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, and the Politics of Genealogy. - Karin Wulf[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o... 8263102
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We've just released a new video from the Journals of Continental Congress series on the JCB YouTube Channel! What was happening 250 years ago, in mid-September 1776? Hear all about it! youtube.com/shorts/v7gVn... 051
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Registration for both in-person and virtual attendees is now open for the 2026 Bromsen Lecture! More details at jcblibrary.org. In-person: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Virtual: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 032
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Now on YouTube! Check out this conversation about Partus Sequitur Ventrum between Jennifer Morgan (New York University) and JCB Director Karin Wulf. This video is part of our series, The Revolution Is News. youtu.be/Og3eUAQVqXUyoutu.beJennifer Morgan on Partus Sequitur Ventrem (Part of The Revolution Is News)YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library 022
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Coming up soon at the JCB and JNBC! Details at: brown2026democracy.brown.edu 022
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The next time you visit jcblibrary.org, scroll down to the bottom of the homepage and check out the items we've added to our online collection! This week's most recent addition is a 40-page book printed by John Dunlap in 1776 that is now available in its entirety on Americana, our virtual platform. 040
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026TODAY!!!! Join us at 4 p.m. EDT for the last segment of our series The Revolution Is News! Registration is open at jcblibrary.org/events/jenni... 000
Reposted by John Carter Brown LibraryKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Friends, if you can make it today @ 4 EDT, you do NOT want to miss the brilliant Jennifer Morgan talking about her ongoing work on Partus Sequitur Ventrem. Whether you're new to maternal heritable slavery as an essential feature of (vast) early America or v experienced it'll be 🤯. 232
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Please be advised that the JCB's Reading Room will be closed the afternoon of September 8, 2026. We hope to see you soon! 000
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Enjoy the long weekend, and then get ready for Tuesday's installment of The Revolution Is News! Join us on September 8 at 4 pm for a discussion about Partus Sequitur Ventrem with Jennifer Morgan, Professor of History at NYU. Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 000
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Our series on the Journals of Congress continues with an installment about what was happening 250 years ago today, in early September 1776. Check out the latest on the JCB YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dMQ...youtube.comJournals of Congress Series: September 3, 2026 InstallmentYouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library 061
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Revolution Is News continues! This week's installment features Brown University professor Linford Fisher discussing the topic of Indigenous slavery with JCB director Karin Wulf. Check out this video and the entire playlist on YouTube! youtu.be/EsSITkXMJvo 000
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Please be advised that the JCB will be closed on Monday, September 7, 2026 in observance of Labor Day. Information about closings can be found at jcblibrary.org/closings/ 000
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Wonderful to see this news about Lauren Duval, who recently participated in our series The Revolution Is News. (Watch her session here: jcblibrary.org/events/laure...) The series continues tomorrow (9/1) with a discussion about Indigenous slavery with Linford Fisher. Details at jcblibrary.org!jcblibrary.orgJohn Carter Brown Library 072
Reposted by John Carter Brown LibraryDan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Fascinating (and depressing) broadside at @jcblibrary.bsky.social in my reading today 051
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Does this book look 500 years old to you? Sumario de la natural y general istoria de las Indias by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés was published in February of 1526. Check out the highlights in this reel, and then view the entire digitized item on Americana! Link: shorturl.at/R3Uys 033
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The August 2026 JCB Newsletter is live! Check out all the latest here: conta.cc/46tb14o Image: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'isle de Saint-Domingue. A Paris , M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776] J. D; Nicolson 041
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Join us on Tuesday, September 1 -next Tuesday!!!- as the series The Revolution Is News continues. JCB Director Karin Wulf will discuss Indigenous slavery with Professor Linford Fisher. Register at jcblibrary.org/events/linfo... 001
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sometimes you find the perfect image in Americana. Birds and bivalves = August in Rhode Island. Source: Birds and bivalves. London: Harrison & Co. 1785. americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec... 040
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The JCB is hiring! The JCB Digital Research Associate will research, write, design, and produce digital publications on topics relevant to the library’s collections and mission. These publications may be targeted at general, scholarly, or student audiences. jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-job... 001
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Check out all the latest at jcblibrary.org! Our website has information on research opportunities, upcoming and past events, our current and past exhibitions, newly digitized items, and much more! 062
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We're sharing a mystery from the archive courtesy of Research Associate Daniel Howlett. 141
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Have you checked out our website's "Newly digitized" feature? Scroll to the bottom of the homepage, and see what's new! 020
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We're hiring! The JCB Digital Research Associate will research, write, design, and produce digital publications on topics relevant to the library’s collections and mission. Details at jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-job... 136
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6... 064
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The JCB's Kimberly Toney traveled to Wallmapu, the ancestral homelands of the Mapuche people, in the southern part of what is today known as Chile, to attend the 17th annual conference of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). jcblibrary.org/news/memorie... 020
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In 2006, Brown University issued the results of a three-year investigation into the university’s historical relationship with slavery and the Transatlantic slave trade. The history at the heart of the Slavery and Justice Report, archivally, resides almost entirely at the JCB. 1/3 152
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6... 025
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The latest JCB blog post is now live! Read about Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Materials Kimberly Toney's visit to Wallmapu for the 2026 conference of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). jcblibrary.org/news/memorie... 031
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The JCB is busy today with visitors from the Brown and RISD libraries taking tours and attending talks offered by our staff as part of Unconference 2026! Pictured here, Kim Nusco leads tours of the Library and Mark Armstrong gives a talk called Gutenberg and his Gutenbuddies. 010
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Happening soon!!!! Join us TODAY, August 4, at 4 pm for a discussion about Money with Joshua Greenberg, editor for Commonplace: the journal of early American life. Details at jcblibrary.org/events/joshu... 020
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6... 04235
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Join us TOMORROW, Tuesday, August 4 at 4 p.m. EDT as The Revolution Is News continues! This week, JCB Director Karin Wulf will discuss the topic of Money with historian Joshua Greenberg. More details and registration at jcblibrary.org! 021
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Join us this Tuesday, August 4 at 4 p.m. EDT as The Revolution Is News continues! This week Karin Wulf discusses Money with historian Joshua Greenberg. More details at jcblibrary.org. 042
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Updates from the JCB on the Sally and the Brown Family Business Records In a new series of blog posts, the JCB staff reflects on the work that has been performed over decades to preserve and order materials related to the slave ship Sally. More at jcblibrary.org/news/reflect... 052
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Join us this Tuesday, August 4 at 4 p.m. EDT as The Revolution Is News continues! This week JCB Director Karin Wulf will discuss Money with historian Joshua Greenberg. Details and registration at jcblibrary.org/events/joshu... 041
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The July 2026 JCB newsletter is live! Check out all the latest on our programming, current exhibition, digital platform, and more! conta.cc/4fyWAjz 011
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It is comforting to know that our fascination with these creatures is nothing new... #jimothy #RaccoonLove Source: americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec... 120
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 22/07/2026If you missed yesterday's conversation between JCB Director Karin Wulf and Professor Christopher Bonner, you can watch it on YouTube! The Revolution Is News series is available on our YouTube channel, and we are looking forward to the next few installments! Details at jcblibrary.org.youtube.comChristopher Bonner: Memory of the American Revolution in Black Politics (The Revolution Is News)YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library 031
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Join us TODAY, July 21, at 4 p.m. EDT as The Revolution Is News continues! Details and registration here: shorturl.at/kPulf 000
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"The biggest story is that Newport is occupied for several years during the Revolution..." -Check out @kawulf.bsky.social's reflections on Revolutionary War-era history as it relates to Brown! 051
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Join us TOMORROW, Tuesday, July 21 at 4 p.m. EDT for our latest installment of The Revolution Is News. JCB Director Karin Wulf will discuss the topic of Memory of the American Revolution in Black Politics with Professor Christopher Bonner. Register here: jcblibrary.org/events/ 0158
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Join us Tuesday, July 21 for the next installment of The Revolution Is News! Christopher Bonner (University of Maryland) will discuss the Memory of the American Revolution in Black Politics. Details at jcblibrary.org! 071
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Our latest episode of the series The Revolution Is News is now available on the JCB YouTube channel! View JCB Director Karin Wulf's conversation about Occupations with the University of Oklahoma's Lauren Duval at youtu.be/gfF6HnDd95Y. More information at jcblibrary.org. 002
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