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Manuscript Monday: The New York City Municipal Archives (3/16/26)
Overview New York City bureaucrats have been creating records that document its government since the first Dutch settlers established a colony here in 1624. The records now total more than 250,000 cubic feet and are preserved in the Municipal Archives, one of the largest archival repositories in North America. Mr. [...]
Manuscript Monday: Constructing Scientific Eminence in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (2/9/26)
Overview The Library of Congress holds more than 12,000 manuscript collections documenting a broad range of American history and culture, among them around 1,000 collections in the history of science and technology. Acquired as part of a broader collecting program targeting “nationally eminent Americans,” the Library’s science and technology acquisitions [...]
How Renaissance Scholars & Printers Decided On The Size Of Books (w/ Ann M. Blair)
Printing in early modern Europe made few technical constraints on the size of books, which could range from very large to small in format and in length. Commercial and cultural factors together determined the size of books in various genres. In particular, strong partnerships between learned authors and printers in [...]
