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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Looking for some reading for the long weekend? We suggest that you check out JCB Research Associate Brittany Erwin's new blog post, "Skeletons and Great Balls of Fire: Funeral Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire." jcblibrary.org/news/skeleto...

The image contains a detail of one of the images that Erwin analyzes, which depicts a skeleton with a bow and arrow, part a structure built to honor the Queen of Spain after her death. The text reads: Skeletons and Great Balls of Fire: Funeral Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire. A new blog post by Research Associate Brittany Erwin.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Join us today, Friday, October 9 at 5 p.m. EDT for the 2026 Bromsen Lecture. Charles Walker (UC Davis) will discuss "The Túpac Amaru Rebellion (1780-1783): An Atlantic Revolution?" Registration for this hybrid (in-person/Zoom) event is now live! jcblibrary.org

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

💥💥💥TODAY! 💥💥💥 Join us for a talk by Peter C. Mancall about his most recent book, Contested Continent, which recounts how North America was forged from the experiences of millions of Indigenous women and men as well as Europeans and Africans. Free and open to the public, with reception to follow.

The poster features the cover of Mancall's book as well as the logistical information about the talk, which will take place on Thursday, October 8 at 4:30 pm at 94 George Street with a reception to follow.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please note that the JCB will be closed on the following dates: Thursday, October 8 (afternoon) Friday, October 9 (afternoon) Monday, October 12 for Indigenous People's Day All JCB closings -and EVENTS- are listed on our website, jcblibrary.org. We hope to see you soon!

The image contains a photo of a reading room lamp and a photo of bookshelves in the Reading Room at the JCB as well as the text, "Please note that the JCB will be closed on the following dates: Thursday, October 8 (afternoon) Friday, October 9 (afternoon) Monday, October 12 for Indigenous People's Day."

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tomorrow! Join us at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 8 for a book talk by Peter C. Mancall (U of Southern California) on Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. For more details, visit jcblibrary.org.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Learn about curious gravestones created by a man named Edward Wharton in Massachusetts in 1675 following the deaths of two Quakers. Research conducted by JCB Research Associate Daniel Howlett. @dhowlett1692 1675 court record source: salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/vol6/i...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We have two talks coming up this week- read all about it in the JCB Newsletter Special Edition! conta.cc/4yEEntq Peter Mancall will present his book Contested Continent on Thursday, and Charles Walker will deliver the Bromsen lecture on Friday. Details at jcblibrary.org!

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thursday at the JCB! Join us for a talk by Peter Mancall, author of Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680. A reception will follow. Details at jcblibrary.org.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We've got a busy week coming up at the JCB! Join us Thursday evening for a talk by Peter C. Mancall about his book Contested Continent, and then come back Friday for the 2026 Bromsen lecture! Details and registration at jcblibrary.org.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Applications for 2027-2028 JCB long-term and short-term fellowships are now open! Check out our opportunities page here: jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've extended our DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS! Interested in presenting a paper or building a panel for our Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds? You have until end of day tomorrow, October 2! Details at: jcblibrary.org/events/confe...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The October 1 installment of our series on the Journals of Congress is now live on the JCB YouTube channel! Ever wondering what was happening in Congress 250 years ago today? We've got you covered! youtube.com/shorts/WzUKK...

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Journals of Congress for October 1, 1776

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today! Join us virtually at noon as we kick off JCB Reads for 2026-2027 with a conversation about the new book, A Sea of Possibilities: The Revolutionary Atlantic World of Captain Thomas Allen by Kenneth Banks. Thursday, October 1 at 12 p.m. EDT Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

JCB 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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brown 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

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The 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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

October 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.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There'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!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Family 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...

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The 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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We'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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Registration 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...

The image reads: The Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture / The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780-1783): Atlantic Revolution? Delivered by Charles Walker, Professor of History, University of California, Davis./ Friday, October 9, 2026 at 5 p.m. / 94 George Street, Providence, Rhode Island.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now 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/Og3eUAQVqXU

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Jennifer Morgan on Partus Sequitur Ventrem (Part of The Revolution Is News)

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Coming up soon at the JCB and JNBC! Details at: brown2026democracy.brown.edu

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The 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.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TODAY!!!! 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...

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Friends, 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 🤯.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Please be advised that the JCB's Reading Room will be closed the afternoon of September 8, 2026. We hope to see you soon!

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Enjoy 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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our 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...

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Journals of Congress Series: September 3, 2026 Installment

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The 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

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Please 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/

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wonderful 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!

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fascinating (and depressing) broadside at @jcblibrary.bsky.social in my reading today

Broadside reading "The Particulars of the late melancholy and shocking Tragedy which happened at Salem near Boston on Thursday, the 17th Day of June, 1773. A row of coffins with initials lines the top with an image of a ship on wave above the title.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does 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

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The 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

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Join 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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes 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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 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...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Check 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!

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

These answers are still a mystery, but the story of Thomas Betty, or Bettis, demonstrates the violence of labor in the seventeenth century, the connections between New England colonies, and the fragmentary lives hidden everywhere in the archive.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The court allowed Betty to leave the indenture in 1682, moving to a new home in Ipswich, and he stopped appearing in Essex court records. When and how did Betty end up in Rhode Island? Why did he return to Ipswich? What happened at his Rhode Island trial?

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A former indentured servant testified that he saw Simmons "beat Bettys so that he fainted...and whipped him with three cords tied to a stick so that he brought blood, while he asked the boy if he loved him. The boy said yes and he beat him again."

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Betty describes the violent abuse inflicted on him by John Simmons: "he brocke my hed twice...the blood ran downe all my cloths to my feett...I was abused sevarall times by him: one time he tied me to a beds foot...and every time beate me." 1681 record source: salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/vol8/i...

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Over a decade earlier, in 1681, Betty appeared in court in Ipswich and was charged with running away. It would be the first of several court appearances.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In September 1692, Lt. Gov. William Stoughton ordered the return of Thomas Betty, then jailed in Ipswich, Massachusetts, to Rhode Island to stand trial for "taking and carrying away" goods and from Rowland Robbinson.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Plain text option: Labor violence, Local connections, and fragmentary lives in the archive Reflections prepared by JCB Research Associate Daniel Howlett What do we know about Thomas Betty?

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're sharing a mystery from the archive courtesy of Research Associate Daniel Howlett.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have you checked out our website's "Newly digitized" feature? Scroll to the bottom of the homepage, and see what's new!

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We'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...

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