ALMANAC SEPTEMBER 2010 A MERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY NUMBER 80

IN THIS ISSUE THE REGISTERS OF PHILADELPHIA DAGUERREOTYPISTS IMONS OLLINS • R ECENT ACQUISITION S & C , 1845-1854

• F ALL LECTURES The opportunity to acquire business phia, more distant locations, • A NNUAL MEETING records for American daguerreotype op - such as Memphis, Tenn., erators is rare, so when curators at AAS Shrewsbury, Mass., and Tri - – W ORCESTER IN 1910 were contacted by our member David este, Austria, are also • B ARON LECTURE Doret about a pair recorded. Often, as is the • W IGGINS LECTURE of truly remark - case with the sitter from Tri - able customer reg - este (Stephen Chase), one • R ECOMMENDED READING isters being offered family member arrived for a • S UMMER SEMINARS by a Pennsylvania session and the next day re - dealer, we acted turned with other family – P ROGRAM IN THE HISTORY quickly. The regis - members – in this case Mrs. OF THE BOOK ters consist of a Chase, who, like her hus - – C ENTER FOR HISTORIC volume for the band, sat for a half plate AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE firm Simons & image. Occasionally, the en - Collins (Mont - tries can be frustratingly un - • CHAV IC C ONFERENCE gomery Simons specific, for example, mentioning only “A Lady,” • N EW MEMBERS and the Collins “An Irish Girl,” or “Child of the Hill family.” The brothers, Thomas information about cases and plate size is often • M ELLON DISTINGUISHED and David C.), and scratched hurriedly in the margin, along with notes SCHOLARS , 2010-2011 a second volume for its subsequent incarnation, about whether payment was owed. Returns and D.C. Collins & Co. (David C. primarily, with refusals are also noted, although these occur infre - • N EW FELLOWS ’ R ESIDENCE Thomas and/or their father, sporadically). Be - quently, indicating that the photographers, who • T EACHING AMERICAN HISTORY cause the Library Company of Philadelphia has started the business just six years after the inven - • N EWS excellent examples of the Collins brothers’ da - tion of the daguerreotype process, tried their best guerreotypes, we confirmed that they were not to get clear images that pleased their clients. • AAS H ERITAGE pursuing these records before we acquired them. Because the registers have been held privately Library Company curator of prints and photo - since being sold by descendants in 2004, they have FALL LECTURES graphs Sarah Weatherwax was pleased that they been used only infrequently by scholars. They are All, 7:30 p.m. ended up at AAS rather than in the hands of a cited in Rebecca Norris’s article on the Collins private collector. They will be available to schol - brothers in the 2006 Daguerreian Annual. Scholar SEPTEMBER ars for future work on the Collins firm, the his - Anne Verplanck has also looked at the ledgers for 16 Nathaniel Philbrick Lecture tory of the daguerreotype, and image-making in her work on Quakers in Philadelphia and consid - 28 Ilyon Woo Lecture the United States before the Civil War. ers them a vital resource for understanding the The registers document over 23,000 cus - consumer culture of the era. Since their arrival at OCTOBER tomers who visited the company’s daguerreian the Society this spring, several collectors and schol - 12 Marla R. Miller Lecture rooms in Philadelphia. For the decade covered ars have already used the registers, including one 21 BARON LECTURE : by the ledgers (1845-1854), each sitter signed the working on a biography of Gough and one, from register or was recorded by a clerk. One of the Singapore, working on the history of the da - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Collins brothers often added comments regard - guerreotype. NOVEMBER ing the weather (“Stormy day,” “Clear day,” etc.), The Collins registers were purchased with funds 9 Paul Finkelman Lecture payment, size of plate taken, and type of case pooled from both the manuscript and graphic arts used. The two volumes are peppered with signifi - acquisition budgets. The documentation of image- 16 WIGGINS LECTURE : cant names, such as Philadelphia lithographer making and consumption that they provide will be John B. Hench Albert Newsom, who sat on the very first day the invaluable to scholars working under the auspices business was open, and the nationally known of the Society’s Center for Historic American Vi - More information online: temperance lecturer John B. Gough, who sat on sual Culture, as well as researchers working in a www.americanantiquarian.org a cloudy January day in 1846. Sitters also gave number of other areas. their address; while most came from Philadel - – Lauren Hewes and Thomas Knoles Left: My Life on the Plains, George A. Custer, 1874. AAS collection, gift of Donald McKay Frost.

Right: Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia. AAS postcard collection.

BATTLES LOST & W ON : F ROM CUSTER TO THE COURTROOM IN AMERICA

Each year, AAS presents two series of pub - September 28 at 7:30 p.m. In her recently pub - On October 12 at 7:30 p.m., AAS member lic programs in Antiquarian Hall, one in the lished book, The Great Divorce, Woo tells the Marla R. Miller will talk about her work on fall and one in the spring. These programs story of Eunice Chapman and her fight to gain Betsy Ross. Miller, who runs the public his - are designed to highlight the work of our custody of her children after her husband joined tory program in the history department at the members and fellows, showcase the kinds of the Shakers in 1814. She conducted research for University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has research done in the collections, and explore this book as a Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fel - written the first scholarly biography of Ross. the history and culture of the United States low in 2004, and claims, “It would be no exag - She teases the truth out of the many myths during the time period of the Society’s col - geration to say that I would not have had the about Ross and what emerges is a fully real - lections. material for a book – at least not a work of nar - ized portrait of an accomplished seamstress, AAS member and bestselling author rative non-fiction – without the AAS collec - wife, and mother. The book also explores the Nathaniel Philbrick will launch our fall se - tions.” As much of the legislative record of this world of Philadelphia crafts people at the ries on September 16 at 7:30 p.m. He will landmark case was lost in a fire, Woo relied on time of our nation’s founding. discuss his latest book, The Last Stand, in a the extensive coverage of the case in the Albany AAS member Paul Finkelman continues lecture entitled “Last Stand at the Little Gazette and Daily Advertiser, and the only re - our fall series with a presentation on Novem - Bighorn: A Centennial Catastrophe.” In this maining copies of this paper are at AAS. ber 9 at 7:30 p.m. on the libel trial of John talk, Philbrick will discuss how Custer’s epic “My debt to AAS lies beyond the archives,” Peter Zenger. Finkelman, who has just pub - defeat at the hands of Chief Sitting Bull dev - said Woo. “It was through my talks with other lished a new edition of A Brief Narrative of astated the nation just as it was celebrating fellows, curators, and staff that I began to de - the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger, will its 100th year. velop the idea of writing a work focused exclu - discuss how the original 1736 imprint be - The Battle of the Little Bighorn also oc - sively on Eunice Chapman. At AAS, I realized came one of the most significant publications curred in the last full year of the Society’s that I had more than enough material in Eu - in colonial America and the far-reaching im - collecting period. Among the many Custer nice’s story alone, and moreover, that Eunice de - plications this landmark case had on Ameri - related imprints in the AAS library is a copy served her own book. Not only that, but I can publishing, government, and law. of Custer’s own work My Life on the Plains, received great encouragement to explore cre - which was originally published to great ac - ative ways of telling this story, which has a nat - claim in 1874. The AAS copy is inscribed: ural three-act arc and a Hollywood ending. “For Genl. Banning with the compliments of Other fellows gave me inspiring reading sugges - G.A. Custer, April 7th 1876.” The book was tions and other tips and introduced me to a subsequently inscribed to General Banning’s wonderful agent, who eventually sold the book son. Henry Blackstone Banning (1836-1881) to Grove/Atlantic.” was an Ohio lawyer who served as a Union This program is co- Infantry officer during the Civil War. After sponsored by Fruitlands the war, Banning was elected a representative Museum in Harvard, to the United States Congress and served as Mass. Fruitlands will chairman of the Committee on Military Af - have a companion pro - fairs from 1873 to 1879. Custer, always gram – dramatic read - mindful of self-promotion, sent this volume ings of historical texts proclaiming his western exploits to this key used in this book – on congressman. September 24. Please see Our fall programs continue with “Discov - www.fruitlands.org for The New-York Weekly Journal, published by ering the Great Divorce” by Ilyon Woo on details. John Peter Zenger. AAS collection.

2 Photo © Harvard University/Stephanie Mitchell

BARON LECTURE Antiquarian Hall under construction in 1910 REFLECTIONS ON A MIDWIFE’S TALE ANNUAL MEETING ADDRESS ORCESTER IN Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will deliver the sev - W 1910 enth annual Baron Lecture on October 21 at AAS Councilor Jock Herron will deliver the annual meeting keynote address, “Worcester in 7:30 p.m. This lecture is named in honor of 1910,” on October 22 at 2:30 p.m. He notes, “there was a fundamental shift in the American Robert C. Baron, past AAS chairman and pres - Antiquarian Society’s scholarly mission and preparation for its centennial with the completion ident of Fulcrum Publishing in Denver. Each of its new library building in 1910. Worcester was on the cusp of a commercial surge in diverse year, a distinguished AAS member who has industries including steel wire, corsets, abrasives, envelope machines, crankshafts, ice skates written seminal works of history is invited to and valentines. The city was also developing as a cultural force whose influence in certain fields reflect on one book and the impact it has had was disproportionate to its size. That year the Worcester Art Museum became the first American on scholarship and society in the years since museum to purchase a Monet, and a year earlier Sigmund Freud had given his only talk in its publication. America when Clark University celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Ulrich will discuss her Pulitzer and Bancroft “The historical novelist E.L. Doctorow might well revel in the improbable mix of Worcester Prize-winning book, A Midwife’s Tale: The notables in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – the rocketeer Robert Goddard, Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, the anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, the psychologists G. Stanley Hall and 1785–1812. The book, first published in 1990, Adolph Meyer, the physicist A.A. Michelson, and local inventors like George Crompton and is considered a model of social history as it ex - Milton Higgins, to name a few. One hundred years later as the American Antiquarian Society amines the life of one Maine midwife and pro - prepares for its bicentennial in 2012, exploring Worcester in 1910 offers context and, perhaps, vides a vivid examination of ordinary life in even clues as we prepare for our third century.” the early American republic. Ulrich masterfully extrapolated this one source to explore the role of women in the household and local mar - WIGGINS LECTURE ket economy, the nature of marriage, sexual re - lations, family life, aspects of medical practice, RANDOM NOTES FROM A BOOK HISTORY BUREAUCRAT and the prevalence of crime and violence at the turn of the nineteenth century. In her Baron The 2010 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the lecture, Ulrich will reflect upon some of the Book in American Culture will be delivered at 7:30 p.m. on Novem - scholarly, popular, and political responses to ber 16 in Antiquarian Hall by John B. Hench , retired vice president the book and will consider its impact on her for collections and programs at AAS. John’s talk, titled “Random own more recent work. Notes from a Book History Bureaucrat,” will combine elements of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a member of the memoir, reflections on the development and influence of the Society’s AAS Council and is the 300th Anniversary Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, and notes University Professor at Harvard University, on some of the themes in his recent book on publishing in the World War II era, Books as where she teaches in the history department. Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War The Society has more than one connection II (Cornell, 2010). to this project: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich con - As one of the key players in the inception of the Society’s Program in the History of the ducted research for the book at AAS. In 1992 Book in American Culture (PHBAC), it is especially fitting that John is delivering the twenty- another member, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, re - seventh Wiggins Lecture. PHBAC offers the annual Summer Seminar in the History of the ceived an AAS-American Society for Eigh - Book; presents a range of academic programs in the field, both in Worcester and at academic teenth-Century Studies Fellowship to research conferences around the country; and awards several short-term fellowships in book history. her film adaption of the book. The film version The Wiggins Lecture is one of the centerpieces of the program, offering a venue for an estab - of A Midwife’s Tale was broadcast nationally lished scholar in the field to either take a retrospective view of his or her scholarship or to on the PBS television program American Ex - make a methodological or interpretive intervention in the field. This annual lecture is named perience and became the basis of an interactive for James Russell Wiggins (1903–2000), who was chairman of the Society from 1970 to 1977 website called www.dohistory.org. and editor of the Washington Post.

3 RECOMMENDED READING

We invited AAS Councilors to recommend a book on an aspect of American history or culture through 1876 that was published in the last year or two, with a brief note on why they liked the book.

Let me recommend Jack The hard part was the In the first months of Rakove’s Revolutionaries condition for books to 1818, Louisa Catherine (Houghton Mifflin Har - be “published in the last Adams left St. Peters - court, 2010). This lively, year or two.” I have two burg, a young son in tow, imaginative interpretation books to recommend: to join her husband, John of the American Revolu - Steven Johnson: The Quincy Adams, in Paris. tion is full of fresh insights Invention of Air, A Story During those weeks she into the ideas and motives of Science, Faith, Revolu - traveled west through of the people who led the colonies into inde - tion, and the Birth of Europe, Napoleon eluded his captors on pendence and then created the United States. I America (Riverhead Elba and made his way north through am really enjoying it! Books, 2009). It’s about France, reassembling his army on the way. – Richard D. Brown the many worlds and This is the wonderful premise of Michael Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of achievements of Joseph O’Brien’s Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey History, Emeritus Priestley. in the Last Days of Napoleon (Farrar, Straus University of Connecticut Gordon S. Wood: The and Giroux, 2010). This marvelous book Purpose of the Past (Pen - chronicles a marriage, the diplomacy of the guin Press, 2008), a col - new American nation, and the turmoil of lection of this great war-torn Europe. Readers interested in seeing historian’s non-academic – Ann Fabian where historical scholar - reviews/essays over the last 30 years. Under - Dean of Humanities and professor of ship is going should take a neath it all is a plea for Americans to have American studies and history look at The Age of Revolu - more of a sense of “historical consciousness.” Rutgers University tions in Global Context, c. – Sid Lapidus 1760-1840, edited by Retired Partner, Warburg Pincus LLC David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Palgrave Although Lawrence Macmillan, 2010). A breathtaking survey of Kennedy’s Planning the what U.S. historians used to think was a City Upon a Hill: Boston uniquely western phenomenon (“the age of the Since 1630 (UMass Press, In The Birth of American democratic revolutions in America and 1992) is not a recent pub - Tourism: New York, the France”), this collection of scholarly essays lication, and Eric Mum - Hudson Valley and looks as well at upheavals in Africa, East and ford’s Defining Urban American Culture, 1790- South Asia, and Latin America. Some essays Design: CIAM Architects 1830 (UMass Press, are almost impenetrable, but the intro and the and the Formation of a 2008), Richard Gassan afterword are worth the price of admission. Discipline, 1937-69 ( Yale, argues that American – Richard Rabinowitz 2010) is outside of AAS’s tourism began with those Founder and President historical range, the two visiting Balston Spa and Saratoga Springs for American History Workshop in combination are an en - their health, and demonstrates how hotels, gaging window into the guide books, and canals rapidly grew up to long and momentous his - Delia’s Tears: Race, Sci - serve those making the sojourn and that the tory of urban develop - ence, and Photography in tales of James Fenimore Cooper and Wash - ment, particularly (but Nineteenth-Century Amer - ington Irving, as well as the canvases of Hud - not exclusively) in America. If the UN de - ica by Molly Rogers (Yale son River School painters, were a response mographers are right and we are going to University Press, 2010) rather than a cause of the tourist boom. add three or so billion more urbanites by builds a fascinating – and – John Tyler 2050, then this pair offers a timely and in - heartbreaking – narrative F. Trubee Davison Chair in History formed look back at the contested theory around seven daguerreotypes taken in Colum - Groton School and the messy practice of city building which bia, South Carolina in 1850 and rediscovered is our future. in 1976 in Harvard’s Peabody Museum. – Jock Herron – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich President, Herron Farms LLC 300th Anniversary University Professor History Department, Harvard University

4 2011 S UMMER SEMINAR

ENCOUNTERING REVOLUTION : PRINT CULTURE , P OLITICS & THE BRITISH AMERICAN LOYALISTS How does our understanding of the history of the American Revolution—the models that govern the way we think about the meanings of print, the nature of authorship, the rhetor - ical forms of expression, and the very notion of “public” culture—change when we reinsert the Loyalist presence into Revolutionary American Studies? The 2011 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in Ameri - can Culture will employ transatlantic meth - ods and contexts as a way of challenging the field’s reliance on nationalist models of liter - ary and cultural history that refer primarily Front, left to right: Jonathan Hiam, Augusta Rohrbach, Bert Emerson, Paul Erickson to the formation and development of the Second row: Alpen Razi, Jeannine DeLombard, Lloyd Pratt, Cathy Corder United States. Held in Worcester from June Third row: Lisa Hinrichsen, Kelly Ross, Lindsay DiCuirci, Karah Rempe, Katherine Pierce 13-17, 2011, the seminar will interrogate the Fourth row: Hunter Price, Lori Bailey, Quentin McAndrew, Sara Hudson “American-ness” of American political writ - Back: Nels Olson, Rob McLoone, Ian Beamish, Michael Fuhlhage, Brenton Stewart, Anthony Szczesiul ing to articulate generic and thematic conti - 2010 S UMMER SEMINAR – H ISTORY OF THE BOOK nuities between British and British American A S OUTHERN POINT OF VIEW

What happens when we view the imagined tracked the interdependence of Southern law community of U.S. print culture from the van - and literary culture from the colonial through tage point of the South? How might such a the antebellum periods. Lectures by guest fac - reoriented book history challenge emerging ulty Michael Winship (Iris Howard Regents Pro - transatlantic, transnational, and cosmopolitan fessor of English II, University of Texas) and histories of the U.S.? These are some of the Robert Bonner (associate professor of history, questions that prompted Lloyd Pratt (associ - Dartmouth College) prepared seminar members ate professor of English, Michigan State Uni - for an archival inquiry into elites’ efforts to cul - versity) and Jeannine DeLombard (associate tivate a distinctive national Southern culture by professor of English, University of Toronto) in means of a sectionally-based periodical press. A shaping this year’s Summer Seminar in the workshop on material contexts for the Chero - writing and printing. By accounting for Loy - History of the Book in America, “The Global kee Phoenix newspaper (1828-present) opened alist writing in a revisionary history of Revo - American South and Early American Print up into a broader exploration of alternative in - lutionary print culture—through an Culture” (June 14-18, 2010). Over the course digenous communications systems with a field examination of Loyalist printers and distribu - of the week, a regionally diverse and interdis - trip to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and tion networks as well as of efforts to censor ciplinary group of scholars addressed these Research Center. The seminar culminated with Loyalist publications—we also hope the sem - questions – and posed new ones – by taking a discussion of “Multilingualism and the Global inar will examine current models of the “pub - “a south-side view” of the American Anti - American South” and an archival session de - lic sphere” and of the historical/theoretical quarian Society’s rich collections. voted to the Society’s Tinker Collection’s rich models informing public and private life in As industrial print culture began consoli - holdings in Francophone Louisiana materials — late eighteenth-century British America. Our dating itself in the Northeast during the mid- from intricate folding Mardi Gras invitations to goal is to consider the multiple, transatlantic nineteenth century, Southerners started to an original copy of Les Cenelles (1845), the first audiences that Loyalist writing imagines for represent themselves as a sectional alternative anthology of African-American literature pub - itself and the larger issues about British Amer - to the larger nation. At the same time, how - lished in the U.S. ican identity and identification that such ever, they continued to assert the priority of The week was not only spent in the Goddard- imagined communities of readers raise for us their own “American” identity. They cele - Daniels House or the library, however. Partici - today. The seminar will be led by Philip Gould brated the internal diversity of their lands, but pants, instructors, and AAS staff enjoyed a (professor of English, Brown University) and they also argued for a regional identity that cookout on the GDH lawn on Tuesday evening Ed Larkin (associate professor of English, united these diverse people and places. After (complete with mint juleps), and the group University of Delaware). an opening session dedicated to “Conceptual - made several forays into Worcester’s dining izing the Global American South and Early scene. A summer seminar Facebook page has American Print Culture,” the seminar moved taken shape, and is already helping ensure that into the archive to investigate how these com - the personal and professional connections that DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS plementary practices of national, regional, were forged during our week together in June SUMMER SEMINAR – H ISTORY OF THE BOOK and local self-definition circulated through will continue. MARCH 11, 2011 print conditions on the ground. One session – Jeannine DeLombard and Lloyd Pratt

5 2010 CHAV IC S UMMER SEMINAR : A V ISUAL APPROACH TO INTERPRETING HISTORY

In its second year, the Center for Historic Brown (Graduate Center, City University of American Visual Culture summer seminar, New York). “Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching Continuing the unique encounter with ac - and Research,” spent a week looking at the tual objects, we participated in a special ses - wonderful materials in the AAS graphic arts sion at the Worcester Art Museum, led by collections. These days, few would dispute Eugene Charov , where we looked at how these that visual materials are essential for scholars materials were created, trying out the tools in the humanities. We all use them and seem - ourselves and seeing how the presses operate ingly can find a profusion of images on the In - in the making of engravings. Another highlight ternet, in the wealth of museum and library was hands-on group work with the multitude databases, and exhibitions. But the CHAViC of visual materials to be found in a nineteenth- summer seminar showed its participants that century parlor. Participants worked in groups there is nothing like looking at the “real to “curate” an exhibit relying on boxes of thing.” Even beyond that, we discovered the stereographs, illustrated books and periodicals, value of learning to look with an enthusiastic family photo albums, parlor games, and many and knowledgeable group of seminar partici - other materials from the AAS collections. The pants, leaders, and scholars. AAS Council room was a beehive of activity The summer seminar was put together by that included participants peering at the co-leaders David Jaffee and Gigi Barnhill, and stereos with stereoscopes and sharing their ably assisted by Lauren Hewes. Participants ideas with each other. spent the week of June 20-25 immersed in a The eighteen CHAViC summer seminar par - series of hands-on workshops that ranged ticipants represented the academic and mu - through the vast corpus of early American seum worlds and that mix greatly enriched our graphic arts, including engravings, mezzotints, discussions. More than half were Ph.D. candi - woodcuts, lithographs, and photographs. In dates, with the rest representing academic and addition, in our daily sessions we discussed museum ranks. Disciplines included history, the vast literature that employs visual materi - English, and art history. Teaching issues were als to gain insights from art history, literature, not neglected in our workshops nor with our and history, among other disciplines. We con - speakers; discussions raised (and hopefully sidered topics ranging from early American helped out with) issues of locating visual portrait prints, antebellum landscapes, and sources, using digital tools for promoting stu - urban scenes, to a reading of the late-nine - dent discussions and exhibitions, and develop - teenth century city, and the etching revival ing student assignments with visual evidence. and chromolithography. We were fortunate to A seminar wiki will allow us to continue our enjoy a wealth of guest lecturers such as Paul conversation and share plans for implementing Staiti (Mount Holyoke College), Sally Pierce ideas from the seminar in the fall. (Boston Athenaeum), Elise Lemire (State Uni - – David Jaffee versity of New York, Purchase), and Joshua

2010 CHAViC Summer Seminar participants:

Front row: Lauren Hewes, Lauren Lessing, Jennifer Black, Larisa Saguisag, Marie Leuliet

Second row: Thomas Lamont, Kristine Ronan, Laura Macaluso, Louise Hancox, Sara Danger, Gigi Barnhill

Third row: Charles Newhall, Julie Caro, Katherine Chavigny, Laura Smith

Back row: Robert Naeher, David Jaffee, John Hartmann, Douglas Gardner, Jennifer Hildebrand

6 FACT ... OR FICTION ?

CHAV IC C ONFERENCE , 2011 CHAV IC NOVEMBER 12 & 13 SUMMER SEMINAR

History Prints – Fact and Fiction is approaching! The Louis P. Masur , William R. Kenan, Jr. Pro - November 12 & 13 program includes a keynote address fessor in American Institutions and Values by Mark Thistlethwaite , the Kay and Velma Kimbell at Trinity College, will be teaching next Chair of Art History, Texas Christian University. His year’s CHAViC summer seminar. Professor presentation, “History Prints for the Parlor,” dovetails Masur teaches a senior seminar in the nicely with the current graphic arts cataloging project American Studies Department on Visual funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Eighteen shorter presenta - Culture in America in which he uses tions will focus on a wide range of topics including heroic prints in nineteenth-century prints, political cartoons, and photographs American children’s books, Currier & Ives harness racing prints, advertisements for along with twentieth-century media. He early American prints, lithographs of public celebrations and tragedies in nineteenth- led an abbreviated seminar on visual cul - century Philadelphia, and prints after Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the ture at AAS in 2001, “Using Graphic Arts Delaware. as Primary Sources.” The seminar begins AAS will mount a modest exhibition of historical prints at the Worcester Center on Sunday, June 19, 2011, and continues for Crafts accompanied by selected works by contemporary artists from October 27 through lunch on Friday, June 24. Further through November 17. Several AAS fellows are submitting work for the exhibition information about the seminar will be as are faculty and students from Worcester State College. The exhibition will be cu - posted on www.chavic.org in the fall. rated by Georgia Barnill and Catherine Wilcox-Titus, and is partially funded by the Worcester Cultural Commission, a local agency which is supported by the Massachu - DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS setts Cultural Council. The conference is funded by a grant from the Gladys Krieble CHAV IC SUMMER SEMINAR Delmas Foundation. MARCH 18, 2011

Please see the AAS website for more information, including registration details.

CHAV IC N EWS Picturing Victorian America publishers during this period, drawing on a The Connecticut Historical Society recently variety of primary sources, such as the Charles SHEAR 2010 closed their exhibition featuring lithographs pub - Parsons account book at AAS, and secondary At the July 23-25 conference of the Society lished by the Kellogg firm in Hartford from 1830 resources. The Library Company will close its for Historians of the Early American Repub - to 1880. To celebrate Picturing Victorian Amer - exhibition, Philadelphia on Stone: The First lic (SHEAR) in Rochester, I chaired a round - ica, Nancy Finlay , curator of graphics, and Kate Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828- table, “Reading the Visual in the Early Steinway , director, assembled a panel of AAS 1878, on the day of the conference. This con - Republic.” David Jaffee of the Bard Graduate members: two collectors, James Brust and John ference is open to the public. Center and Nancy Siegel of Towson Univer - Zak ; a print seller, Donald Cresswell of the sity presented useful information on teaching. Philadelphia Print Shop; and myself to speak Exhibitions and Inventory Projects David focused on using media in the class - about the fine exhibition that Nancy Finlay as - A new online exhibition, A Place of Read - room to help students find and present visual sembled and the publication. I focused my com - ing, was recently posted on the AAS website. materials; Nancy spoke about using Paul Re - ments on my admiration of the institutional Cheryl Harned’s text and selected images are vere’s engravings in the classroom. This ses - commitment to finding funding for this project presented in two formats: as a standard ex - sion was a smaller version of a roundtable at and for the exhibition catalog which contains hibition and in the form of a book, with turn - the Organization of American Historians several fine essays that contextualize the prints ing pages. Within hours of being posted by conference in April. SHEAR’s members are in interesting ways. The catalog also includes Jaclyn Penny, a scholar in the Midwest com - an important audience for CHAViC. Some thumbnail reproductions of over 1,000 prints in plimented AAS on it and indicated that her senior historians know that they have to ad - the CHS collection. students would find it of great interest. The dress visual materials in their classes, but are gallery at the end of the exhibition offers read - not sure how to start. I have come to empha - Philadelphia on Stone ers an opportunity to post their own images. size the term visual culture as a methodology On Friday, October 15, the Library Company A webpage of historical prints was created that examines visual materials (particularly of Philadelphia, through its Program in Early for the History Prints – Fact and Fiction ex - prints and ephemera) through the lens of his - American Economy and Society and the Visual hibition to provide a source of inspiration for tory. The presidential address by Rosemarie Culture Program, is hosting a conference, Rep - artists unfamiliar with AAS holdings. Illus - Zagarri of George Mason University was on resentations of Economy: Lithography in Amer - trated inventories are also available from one the significance of the global turn in histori - ica from 1820-1860. It is the Ninth Annual page on the AAS website now, providing an - cal studies. The CHAViC conference in No - Conference of PEAES. I will be providing an other resource for visual culture scholars. vember will have an international compo- overview of the financial underpinnings and – Georgia B. Barnhill nent, as did the summer seminar. challenges faced by lithographic printers and

7 NEW MEMBERS Twenty-three new members were elected at the semiannual meeting on April 23, 2010 EDWARD S. C OOKE , J R. VICE ADMIRAL (RET ) G EORGE W. E MERY in Washington, D.C. New Haven, Connecticut Kennebunkport, Maine Edward Cooke, Jr. is the Charles Mont - George Emery served as the Commander of LYNNE Z. B ASSETT gomery Professor of American Decorative the Submarine Allied Command in the At - Palmer, Massachusetts Arts at Yale University and has been the di - lantic from 1993 until his retirement in 1996 Costume and textile historian Lynne Bassett rector of the Yale Center for the Study of to his native state of Maine, where he has has curated many exhibitions throughout the American Art and Material Culture since continued to pursue his interest in maritime region, including “Modesty Died When 1992. His books include New American Fur - history. He is the author of Historical Man - Clothes Were Born” for the Mark Twain niture: Second Generation Studio Furniture - uscripts in the Navy Department Library House in Hartford, which had an accompa - makers (1989), Making Furniture in (1994), and a contributor to America’s nying catalog and received the Costume Soci - Preindustrial America: The Social Economy Naval Heritage: A Catalog of Early Imprints ety of America’s Richard Martin Award for of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut From the Navy Department Library (2000); excellence. Her many publications include (1996), and Inspired by China: Contempo - U.S. Navy: A Complete History (2003); and Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth rary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Tra - Leadership Embodied: The Secrets to Suc - (2009), which she edited, and an essay entitled ditions (2006). cess of the Most Effective Navy and Marine “Dressing Romantically” in Picturing Victo - Corps Leaders (2005). rian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers JAMES W. C OOK of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880 (2009). Ann Arbor, Michigan BETSY ERKKILÄ James Cook is a professor of history and Evanston, Illinois WHITNEY BEALS American culture at the University of Michi - Betsy Erkkilä is the Henry Sanborn Noyes Southborough, Massachusetts gan. His publications include The Arts of Professor of Literature at Northwestern Uni - Whitney Beals is a land protection specialist Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of versity. She is the author of Mixed Bloods for the New England Forestry Foundation. A Barnum (2001); The Colossal P.T. Barnum and Other American Crosses: Rethinking graduate of Harvard University and the Yale Reader: Nothing Else Like it in the Universe! American Literature from the Revolution to School of Forestry, he has been working in (2005); and as co-editor, The Cultural Turn the Culture Wars (2004); The Wicked Sis - the conservation field since 1971. He has held in U.S. History: Past, Present, & Future ters: Women Poets, Literary History, and positions with the Connecticut Department (2008). He is currently at work on two books Discord (1992); Whitman the Political Poet of Environmental Protection, the Nature about African American performers and the (1996); and Walt Whitman Among the Conservancy, as a consulting forester, and roots of global mass culture. French: Poet and Myth (1980). with the Sudbury Valley Trustees. His father, the late Phil Beals, was a long-time member THADIOUS DAVIS DAVID S. F ERRIERO of AAS and served faithfully on the Council. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Washington, District of Columbia Thadious Davis is the Geraldine R. Segal Pro - David Ferriero is the newly appointed DENNIS D. B ERKEY fessor of American Social Thought and a pro - Archivist of the United States. Previously, Worcester, Massachusetts fessor of English at the University of he served as the Andrew W. Mellon Director Dennis Berkey has been President of Worces - Pennsylvania. She is the author of Games of of the New York Public Libraries (NYPL). ter Polytechnic Institute since 2004 and Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Before joining the NYPL in 2004, Ferriero serves on numerous boards including Go Down, Moses (2003) and Nella Larsen, served in top positions at two of the nation’s UMass/Memorial Health Care, Inc., the Mas - Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance (1994), major academic libraries, the Massachusetts sachusetts Biomedical Initiative, the Massa - and the co-editor of Satire or Evasion: Black Institute of Technology and Duke Univer - chusetts Mathematics and Science Initiative, Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn (1992). sity. He is the tenth Archivist of the United and Leaders for Education. He was called She is currently writing a book on African States (a post created in 1934), and is the upon recently to lead the successful search for American writers, the American South, and sixth of that number to be elected a member the superintendent of the Worcester Public the geographies of race and region. of AAS. Schools and to serve on the Governor’s new task force on science, technology, engineer - ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON ELTON W. H ALL ing, and mathematics education. Boston, Massachusetts South Dartmouth, Massachusetts Elizabeth Dillon is a professor of English at Elton Hall is the executive director of the WILLIAM J. C OFFILL Northeastern University. She is the author of Early American Industries Association, Sonora, California The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberal - which preserves and presents historic trades, Attorney William Coffill is a fourth-genera - ism and the Literary Public Sphere (2004), crafts, and tools, and interprets their impact tion resident of Tuolumne County and has a and New World Drama: Theatre of the At - on our lives. A graduate of the University lifelong interest in the Gold Rush, for which lantic, 1660-1850 (forthcoming). She is also of Delaware's Winterthur Program, he has the area is noted. He is the present day stew - co-editing a forthcoming volume of essays on also served as curator of the Whaling Mu - ard of a California collection started by his early American culture and the Haitian Rev - seum in New Bedford, the Old Dartmouth grandfather, which he continues to develop. olution. During the 2010-2011 academic Historical Society, and of the Colonial Soci - He serves currently on the board of the year, she will be an AAS-National Endow - ety of Massachusetts, authoring and editing Sonora Area Foundation and has been in - ment for the Humanities long-term fellow. many publications for each over the course volved in numerous organizations, including of his career. the Friends of the Tuolumne County Library.

8 BERNARD L. H ERMAN STANLEY OLINER ROBERT K. S UTTON Chapel Hill, North Carolina Denver, Colorado Washington, District of Columbia Bernard Herman is the George B. Tindall Stanley Oliner retired as curator of books at Robert Sutton is chief historian of the Na - Professor of American Studies at the Univer - the Colorado Historical Society and now tional Park Service. His career has taken him sity of North Carolina. His books include serves as a volunteer librarian of the National across the country as a ranger, historian, pro - Architecture and Rural Life in Central Amateur Press Association, which was fessor, and administrator. Before taking his Delaware, 1700-1900 (1990); The Stolen founded in 1876 and is still active, distribut - current post, he was Superintendent of the House (1992) ; and Town House: Architec - ing copies of monthly publications among its Manassas National Battlefield Park, where he ture and Material Life in the Early American membership of amateur authors, editors, and initiated a major symposium that attracted City, 1760-1830 (2005) – each awarded the printers. As president of Historians of Ama - renowned scholars and developed an inter - Abbott Lowell Cummings Award as the best teur Journalism (who call themselves the Fos - pretive institute for park rangers on creating book on North American vernacular archi - sils), he has been especially helpful to AAS in new ways to interpret the Civil War. In 2000, tecture. helping secure early collections and the funds he received the Department of the Interior’s to preserve them. Meritorious Service Award. ISAAC KRAMNICK Ithaca, New York LLOYD PRATT SZILVIA SZMUK -T ANENBAUM Isaac Kramnick is the Richard J. Schwartz East Lansing, Michigan New York, New York Professor of Government at Cornell Univer - Lloyd Pratt is a professor of English and For 26 years, Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum was sity. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical African American Studies at Michigan State the special collection librarian at St. John’s Society and a past president of the American University. He is a scholar of antebellum University, with collections ranging from rare Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. His American literature, the history of the book, bibles to the history and culture of lawn ten - recent publications include edited editions of and African-American culture, and is no nis. She also the compiler of several bibliogra - the writings of Tocqueville and Burke; The stranger to AAS; he has held both short-term phies of Spanish comedias sueltas, which had Godless Constitution: The Case Against Re - and long-term fellowships, and was the co- been the subject of her dissertation. She is the ligious Correctness (1996); and The leader (with Jeannine DeLombard) of the widow of AAS member Charles Tanenbaum Portable Enlightenment Reader (1995). Summer Seminar in the History of the Book and continues their shared interests in books in June. His publications include Archives of through her activities with the Grolier Club RUSSELL MCCLINTOCK American Time: Literature and Modernity in and the Bibliographical Society of America. Shrewsbury, Massachusetts the Nineteenth Century (2009). Russell McClintock is a history teacher at St. DELL UPTON John’s High School in Shrewsbury, Mass. NANCY PATTERSON SEVCENKO Los Angeles, California and an instructor in the Teaching American South Woodstock, Vermont Dell Upton is a professor and chair of the de - History seminars at Fitchburg State. His Nancy Sevcenko, the great-great-great-great- partment of art history at UCLA. He has Clark University dissertation won the pres - granddaughter of Isaiah Thomas, has been written widely on early American vernacular tigious Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize from generous in her support for the library, which architecture, particularly in the South. His the Abraham Lincoln Institute and the Abra - is his legacy. An independent scholar, she book Holy Things and Profane: Anglican ham Lincoln Association, and his recent has published on a wide variety of topics in Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1987) book, Lincoln and the Decision for War: Byzantine art, liturgy, and culture. She was won the Society of Architectural Historians’ The Northern Response to Secession, has the associate editor of The Oxford Diction - Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, the been praised by scholars and was voted by ary of Byzantium (1991) and is the co-author American Studies Association’s John Hope members of the History Book Club as the of Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Franklin Publication Prize, and the Vernacu - best Civil War book of 2008. Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Cata - lar Architecture Forum’s Abbott Lowell logue, which has just been completed. Cummings Award. FORTUNAT MUELLER -M AERKI Sussex, New Jersey RAYMOND V. S HEPHERD Fortunat Mueller-Maerki is a partner in the Sewickley, Pennsylvania New York office of Egon Zehnder Interna - Raymond Shepherd recently retired as direc - tional as well as the chairman of the Library tor of Old Economy Village in Ambridge, Committee of the National Watch and Penn., a post he had held since 1982. Having Clock Museum in Columbia, Penn. He is previously held curatorial positions at Clive - an avid collector of horological books and den, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and periodicals, subscribing to 27 magazines Wyck, he is a long-time collector of material about clocks and watches. He is currently relating to Pennsylvania and to utopian working on creating a framework for Bibli - movements. Old Economy Village was the ographia Horologiae Mundi, a global online home of the nineteenth-century Christian bibliography on time, timekeeping, and communal group, the Harmony Society. Es - timekeepers. tablished in 1824, Economy was known worldwide for its piety and industrial prosperity.

9 A W ARM WELCOME

The American Antiquarian Society is delighted to wel - come as its Distinguished Scholars in Residence for 2010-2011, James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton. James Horton is the Ben - jamin Banneker Professor The new Fellows’ Residence Emeritus of American Stud - next door to Antiquarian Hall ies and History at George officially opened on May 25 Washington University. Lois Horton is pro - with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. fessor of history emerita at George Mason Shown above: Ellen S. Dunlap with Councilors George W. Tetler III and Chuck Arning, and University. Their co-authored books include Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray. Black Bostonians: Family Life and Commu - nity Struggle in the Antebellum North (1979); In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Com - munity and Protest Among Northern Free FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Blacks, 1700-1860 (1998); A History of the African American People (1997); Hard ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS Road to Freedom: The Story of African The fellowship program at AAS, established in 1972, includes both short- and long- America (2001); and The Man and the term residencies. Information about specific fellowships and the application process is Martyr: Abraham Lincoln in African Amer - available online: www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowship.htm. ican History and Memory (2006). While they are in residence at AAS, the ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT AAS Hortons will be working on two research AAS also offers visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing projects. Their primary work will be on a artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and others whose goals are to produce imagina - project titled “A Documentary History of tive, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history. Their African Americans from 1619 to the Civil work is intended for the general public rather than for academic or educational audiences. War.” This book will be part of the Oxford For details on those fellowships, see www.americanantiquarian.org/artistfellowship.htm. University Press “Pages in History” series. For this book, the Hortons hope to collect FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINES both familiar and lesser-known documents • October 5, 2010 for creative artists and writers fellowships in 2011 that give voice to the Africans who came to • October 15, 2010 for the Hench Post-dissertation Fellowship for 2011-2012 British North America and to their descen - • January 15, 2011 for other academic fellowships in 2011-2012 dants who helped shape the African Amer - ican experience. They will write the story of Black America and of blacks’ influence on major trends in American history using these primary sources. The Hortons’ second project will be to begin preliminary research for a book ten - tatively titled “African Americans and the Concept of Freedom in the Revolutionary Era,” in which they will attempt to uncover the experience of Africans and African Americans during the decades around the Revolutionary War. This research will focus on newspaper articles, petitions, court cases, and other documents that express blacks’ Teachers working with primary source materials, and Jim Moran hopes for the abolition of slavery and their leading a discussion of colonial American newspapers with a fac - vision for liberty in the new nation. This simile of Isaiah Thomas’s newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy project will try to assess the relationship be - tween the white patriots and slaves and free DYNAMIC WORKSHOPS FOR K-12 E DUCATORS blacks during the pre-Revolutionary agita - TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY tion, in the Revolutionary forces, and in the post-Revolutionary formation of the na - These are photographs of a recent K-12 workshop held in Antiquarian Hall for educators from tion. the New Haven, Connecticut area. The Society offers a wide variety of workshops on American Jim and Lois will arrive in Worcester in history and culture for pre-collegiate educators. While most of these programs take place on site, mid-November, and will be in residence our staff also conducts offsite programs using AAS digital resources. If you work with teachers through the spring of 2011. and would like to participate in one of our workshops or know of a school district that could benefit from working with AAS, please contact James David Moran, director of outreach.

10 MEMBERS ’ N EWS

Katharine Martinez has been appointed di - The Connecticut Humanities Council presented Matthew Hale , who held the Legacy Fellow - rector of the Center for Creative Photogra - John P. Demos with a Lifetime Achievement in ship in 2000-01, received the 2010 Ralph D. phy at the University of Arizona. Prior to this the Humanities award in May. Mary and David Gray Article Prize from SHEAR for his article appointment, she was the director of the Fine Dangremond received a Wilbur Cross Award for “On Their Tiptoes: Political Time and News - Arts Library in the Harvard College Library. their outstanding contributions to the humani - papers during the Advent of the Radicalized ties. French Revolution, circa 1792–1793,” pub - Doris Kearns Goodwin received the 2010 lished in the Summer 2009 issue of the Jour - Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award nal of the Early Republic. Matthew is an from Old Sturbridge Village in May. Ken assistant professor of history at Goucher Burns is also a member of AAS. College.

Seth Rockman ’s book Scraping By: Wage Robert Peck ’s discovery of Audubon’s first Photo courtesy of Worcester Living Magazine engraved image of a bird made international Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Balti - headlines and was featured on NPR’s “Morn - Worcester Living Magazine featured our third more (Johns Hopkins, 2009) won the 2010 ing Edition” in early August. His paper on annual Adopt-a-Book event in the summer issue Organization of American Historians’ Merle the discovery, written with his co-author, nu - with photographs, including this one of AAS Curti Prize and the Philip Taft Labor History mismatic historian Eric Newman , will be members Bill Wallace , Ann Lisi and Joel Greene . Book Award. Seth held an AAS-NEH Fellow - published in the fall issue of the Journal of Adopt-a-Book funds support a wide range of ac - ship in 2006-07, and is currently an associate the Early Republic. Bob is the Senior Fellow quisitions. professor of history at Brown University. and Curator of Art and Artifacts at Philadel - phia's Academy of Natural Sciences. Dale Cockrell , a professor of musicology at Van - Three-time AAS short-term fellow (Peterson, derbilt University, has been appointed interim 1996-97; AAS-NEMLA, 2000-01; AAS- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the W.E.B. director of the Center for Popular Music, an NEMLA, 2006-06) David Anthony ’s book Du Bois Institute for African and African archive and research center for the study of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, American Research at Harvard University American vernacular music at Middle Tennessee and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebel - and host of PBS’s Faces of America, has State University. lum America was published in Fall 2009 by joined Archives.com as an advisor. Ohio State University Press. David is currently FELLOWS ’ N EWS an associate professor of English at Southern Richard R. Beeman , professor of history and Illinois University, Carbondale. former dean of the College of Arts and Sci - Kathleen Brown , who was the Mellon Postdoc - ences at the University of Pennsylvania, re - toral Fellow in 1997-98, received the 2010 Foul Bodies: Cleanliness STAFF NEWS ceived the sixth annual George Washington SHEAR Book Prize for in Early America Book Prize for Plain, Honest Men: The Mak - (Yale, 2009). She is a professor ing of the American Constitution (Random of history at the University of Pennsylvania. House, 2009). This prize honors the most im - portant new book about America’s founding Carolyn Eastman , an assistant professor of his - era and is sponsored by Washington College, tory at the University of Texas, Austin, won the the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American 2010 James Broussard Best First Book Prize History, and George Washington’s Mount from the Society for Historians of the Early A Nation of Vernon. James G. Basker , president of the American Republic for her book, After 10 years as vice president for adminis - Speechifiers: Making an American Public after Gilder Lehrman Institute, said, “we found tration, Ed Harris left AAS in May to become the Revolution Plain, Honest Men to be a masterfully writ - (Chicago, 2009). Carolyn held a vice president for learning and development ten and enormously edifying book.” Peterson Fellowship in 1997-98 and a Last Fel - for Caritas Christi Health Care and interim lowship in 2008-09. president of Labouré College.

A Place in My Thank you! Chronicle, a hand - AAS welcomes your support in a variety of ways: some new edition of Donations of collection materials are appreciated. We are interested in Christopher Colum - anything printed in this country from colonial times through 1876 that is not bus Baldwin’s diary already in an AAS collection. Please contact Peg Lesinski, head of acquisitions, with over 160 illus - if you have items to donate; she will get your offer to the right curator. trations, is available Financial support is crucial to the work done at AAS. Details on the Isaiah at AAS or through Oak Knoll Books, Thomas Society, George Bancroft Society, Esther Forbes Society, endowed www.oakknoll.com. funds and fellowships, and the annual fund are on the AAS website. Please contact John Keenum, vice president for development, with specific questions. Donors are thanked in the annual report.

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AAS Heritage THE ESSENTIAL – AND ENDURING – HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA

“Finished at Press the ‘History of Printing.’” One would hardly guess from Isaiah Thomas’s laconic diary entry for August 14, 1810 that a veritable revolution had been launched. With his thousand-page, two-volume work, The History of Printing in America, Thomas had created out of whole cloth a new scholarly discipline: the history of the book in the Americas. Two years later he would found AAS, an institution that would not only preserve the primary sources Thomas had collected for the History, but would eventually embrace as its core mission Thomas’s ambitious goal to collect and document American book history. Within two weeks of Thomas’s diary entry, advertisements for the History began to appear in newspapers nationwide. Subscribers received a book that, while loosely based on English models such as Joseph Ames’s Ty - pographical Antiquities (1749), was brilliantly innovative. Thomas surveyed the entire history of printing in the Americas, with biographies of all known printers and booksellers in “English America” through the Revolu - tion—Thomas’s own biography runs over 20 pages—based on personal knowledge and extensive primary re - search. Of equal value were the summary histories provided of every early American newspaper known to Thomas. Today AAS possesses nine complete copies of Thomas’s book (two bearing Thomas’s book- plate), the interleaved copy extensively annotated by Thomas for a contemplated revision, and masses of Thomas’s working notes. These were incorporated in part in a second edition published by AAS in 1874. Modern readers know Thomas’s History through the abridged 1970 reprint of the second edition, edited by Marcus A. McCorison. Exactly two centuries later, AAS proudly (and not so laconically) celebrates the completion of its own five-volume History of the Book in America. HBA extends Thomas’s work by 200 years and has rewritten it for the present generation, but by no means has it superseded Thomas’s History, which remains an essential reference. – David Whitesell