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John Garcia

@jgarc.bsky.social
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AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.

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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Call for Applications: The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print, Jan. 11-15. ‘27 at the American Antiquarian Society (deadline: Oct. 15 ‘26)
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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
✨John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social speaks tomorrow at 5:15pm EST - hope that you can make it! Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom. Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org (Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This cake made by #auntiequarian
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
@douglassday.bsky.social #douglasssay
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California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy
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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST 📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.” Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print. Details: pennmaterialtexts.org Hope to see you there!
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
THE RED MAN'S REBUKE.
BY SIMON POKAGON
Pottawattamie Chief.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Folks in the U of Miami area—I’ll be giving a lecture on Tuesday, Sept 9 about Black participation in early American print shops, paper mills, and libraries at the Kislak Center.
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Slavery and the Making of the Early American Book
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Next week! Christopher Looby delivers the James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Register to attend in-person at AAS or virtually. #bookhistory #C19
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Next Tuesday 4/15 is the deadline to apply for this summer’s CHAViC seminar on Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World. Don’t miss it!
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Leaving this without comment.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Next week! Virtual Book Talk featuring Ben Bascom’s Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early U.S. Thurs. March 27 at 2pm EST. Link in comments to register.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Preview of the AAS summer seminar on 19th-cent. American Photography. Applications due next month—and tuition scholarships are available for junior scholars.
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Summer Seminar Preview: CHAViC 2025
YouTube video by AmericanAntiquarian
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society. Link with more info in comments.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein. Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars. Link in comments.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I just love how this Increase Mather portrait is cordoned off like it’s a crime scene
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Fellowship alert: apply for fellowships for scholars and artists to research in the Kislak Center at the University of Miami. Holdings in early Americas, Indigenous history, colonization and exploration, Latin America. Good people there. Link in comments.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Worth reposting for new folks in my feed: this THURSDAY at 4pm est—register to watch Sara Johnson speak about her amazing work on slavery, colonialism, and the history of the book in the life of a French intellectual from the era of the Haitian Revolution. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9823
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Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World | American Antiquarian Society
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Next week: AAS virtual book talk featuring Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. 11/21 at 4pm EST. Link to register in comments
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
Don’t miss out! Next Monday, July 15, Joseph Rezek gives the Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture on “Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print” at the American Antiquarian Society. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/9400
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Haiti’s Media Revolution and the Racialization of Print | American Antiquarian Society
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Tomorrow, Thurs. 2pm EST: Virtual Book Talk roundtable with presentations on the history of bookstores, the rare book trade, and women book collectors. Link to register: www.americanantiquarian.org/node/8568
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Next week! Lara Langer Cohen’s Virtual Book Talk on her 2023 book Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the 19th-Century United States. Register here: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Still time to apply to the 2024 AAS summer seminar on Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice, using materials from the amazing AAS graphic arts collection. www.americanantiquarian.org/2024-chavic-...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Next week March 28 at 2pm—Duncan Faherty virtual book talk on The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters. www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
This Thursday 2/29 at 2pm EST; Virtual Biik Talk by Martha Cutter on Henry “Box” Brown. Check it out! Link to register: www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
The 2024 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book at the American Antiquarian Society is now online. “Comparative Migrations and Multilingual Cultures of Print” taught by Rodrigo Lazo and Patrick Erben, July 14-19. More info here: www.americanantiquarian.org/comparative-...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
The 2024 CHACiC summer seminar is how online. “Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice” taught by Laurel Daen and Jennifer Van Horn. www.americanantiquarian.org/2024-chavic-...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
More info forthcoming for this exciting program. .
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Soon, in April www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
A summer class at UCLa where I condense 10+ years of archival research and bibliographical training. Rolling applications and scholarships available. Link to description in comments.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
August 2024 I’ll teach History of the Book in America 1700-1900 at UCLA’s Cal Rare Book School. Many other great (better) classes to choose from as well!
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History of the Book in America, 1700–1900 – CalRBS
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
JOB POSTING: Head of Cataloging Services at American Antiquarian Society. Share with friends!
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Head of Cataloging Services at American Antiquarian Society
Job Title: Head of Cataloging Services Department: Cataloging Services Reports to: Associate Librarian FLSA status: Full-time, Exempt, 35 hours/week Salary Range: $70k – $77k, annually Location: Wo...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Tomorrow 11/30 at 2pm EST—Michael Roy on 19th century slave narratives and antebellum print culture. Link to register below:
americanantiquarian.org
virtual book talk michael roy | American Antiquarian Society
Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture Michaël Roy Thursday, November 30, 2023, at 2pm ET Approximately 60 minutes. This virtual program is free, but registration is required. Y...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Collecting SUN RA—zoom discussion from UPenn Libraries tomorrow Friday 10/20
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Collecting Sun Ra, Pioneer of Afro-Futurism Jazz
Collector and jazz historian John Szwed, in conversation with curator Samantha Hill, discusses the archive he assembled on the influential Philadelphia Jazz artist Sun Ra.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Tomorrow is the 2024 AAS Baron lecture featuring Nell Painter. Still time to register for in-person or virtual!
americanantiquarian.org
Hybrid Program with Nell Irvin Painter | American Antiquarian Society
The Eighteenth Annual Robert C. Baron Lecture
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Apply for this fellowship and/or tell a friend. Deadline is 11/17/23
rarebookschool.org
SoFCB Junior Fellows Program | Rare Book School
This year, ten Junior Fellows will be selected to join Rare Book School's Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) through an open application process. After completing tw...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Excellent piece that summarizes many of the reasons why I resigned from a TT position at Florida State University.
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Darcie Fontaine · Diary: Florida under DeSantis · LRB 19 October 2023
DeSantis has sought to impose a far-right, Christian nationalist vision. His ‘war on woke’ has targeted educational...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
This message courtesy of Sam McPheeters:
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
I’m afraid to rent for fear of Einsturzende Neubauten.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
It’s sweater weather, so here’s my dog in his favorite warmie!
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Today at 12 EST and not too late to register
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A Conversation with Corinna Zeltsman: The Politics of Print and Paper | Rare Book School
Join the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School (SoFCB) for a free, hybrid event. Corinna Zeltsman, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, ...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
!!!
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The Smithsonian Acquires Major Works by and About Phillis Wheatley
The stunning trove of texts sheds new light on Wheatley, the first African American to publish a book of poetry
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Oct. 15 deadline for the Hench 12 month postdoc at the American Antiquarian Society. Come work with the collections & I promise to leave you alone.
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Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship | American Antiquarian Society
Long-term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate are eligible to apply for a special year-l...
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
in nicer news—writers, visual artists: American Antiquarian Society's Creative Artist Fellowships applications are due October 5. I spent time there researching a book in summer 2021 + it was great—amazing staff, you can stay in a house that's clean and nice enough right by the archive, and it pays!
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Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers | American Antiquarian Society
Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers The American Antiquarian Society offers visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, film maker...
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Hi everyone. On this account you can expect content about: academic things, my dog, synthesizers, and the places, people, and oddities of Providence RI.
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