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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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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Yes if course! jgarcia@mwa.org

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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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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 · 18/07/2025

Interesting. Fun fact: the Huntington has a Magnalia that belonged to Samuel Taylor Coleridge—with a little mss poem inside dissing Cotton lol

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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Wow! Any IT marginalia going on in there???

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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 · 10/03/2025

Catalog record with that info: catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdin...

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AAS Catalog Record

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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

That’s the one and only M.A. Gannon, performing in the role of “Little Pickle” c.a. 1843! catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdin...

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AAS Catalog Record

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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

No actually it’s just in storage at the library I work at. The painting is an early 20th century copy LOL

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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Because it’s a bad painting!

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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 · 12/11/2024

KSPC Claremont Colleges radio: briefly late 1990s primarily experimental/noise/free jazz/metal

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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

Yes, these talks are later posted to the American Antiquarian Society’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@AmericanAnt...

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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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