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Lecture: McKenney and Hall’s ‘Great National Work’: Portrait Prints, U.S. Indian Policy and the Making of a Continental Empire, Library Company of Philadelphia

The Library Company of Philadelphia 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Thursday, October 3, 2019: The Library Company of Philadelphia presents a lecture by 2018-2019 William H. Helfand Visual Culture Fellow Julia Grummitt, a Princeton University Ph.D. candidate in History. Grummitt’s lecture will explore McKenny and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (1836-1844), which at the time of its publication was the most elaborately illustrated...

Webinar: Maps as Text, Subtext, and Hypertext: A behind-the-scenes tour of “Bending Lines,” a digital exhibition on persuasive maps at the Leventhal Map & Education Center

On Wednesday, February 24th at 4 pm (EST), join historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library for a discussion about representation, reality, and the visualization of geographic information in the new exhibition Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception. Dr. Nelson...

Online Event: “The American ‘Boys’ in Venice”

  Join the American Historical Print Collectors Society and the Cincinnati Art Museum for a special Zoom presentation   September 9, 2021, 7:00 PM Eastern Time   Since the 18th century, Venice has served as a source of inspiration for artists seeking to capture its watery vistas, historic architecture, and exotic inhabitants. Kristin Spangenberg, Curator of...