The Papers of Roger Brooke Taney Do you have in your collection any correspondence to or from Roger Taney? Those who are collectors of Andrew Jackson certainly know the name! He supported and served Andrew Jackson during Jackson's presidency. To most history students he is most famous as the man [...]
Board of Trustees Class of 2026 Below are three society members who have committed to service on the Board of Trustees for the next three years. One is a brand new board member and two have taken on a second term. We thank them all for their commitment to the [...]
By NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) - originally posted to Flickr as Gutenberg Bible, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9914015 For the collector of documents, manuscripts, letters, we know that paper making is an ancient practice. Before the industrialization of the paper production the most common fiber source was recycled fibers [...]
2023 Shapiro Book Prize Lecture March 29, 2023 - 7:30 PM (Pacific Time) - Live via Zoom R. Isabela Morales, winner of the 2023 Shapiro Book Prize, talks about her book “Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom,” and shares the story of the 19th-century Townsend [...]
2023 Maass Research Grant Recipient Announced Maxwell Pingeon - 2023 Maass Research Grant Recipient Maxwell Pingeon, a PhD student in the department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia was named the 2023 Maass research grant recipient according to Dr. Elizabeth Dow, chairman of the Scholarship Committee [...]