Rare Book and Special Collections Division Webcasts

Early Books

• Reading the Bible in the Reformation (Mack Holt)
• Scientific Seduction: Learning in Enlightenment Scientific Guidebooks (Tita Chico)
• Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (Chet Van Duzer)
• Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope (Michelle Thaller)
• The Giant Bible of Mainz (Daniel DeSimone)
• Illustrated Books of the 15th & 16th Centuries (Ilaria Andreoli)
• Shedding Light on Antiquity (Michael Toth, John Hessler, William Noel, Chet Van Duzer, Fenella France)
• Dante's 750th Birthday (Grant Harris, Lucia Wolf, Francesco Ciabattoni, Kristina Olson, Bernardo Piciché, Eugenio Refini)
• Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought (Jeremy Brown)
• The Book That Changed the World: The Gutenberg Bible (Mark Dimunation)
• Medieval Manuscripts at the Library of Congress (Ilya Dines)
• Schemes of Annotation in Ptolemy's Geography (Chet van Duzer)
• Columbus' Most Prized Possession (John R. Hebert)
• The History of the Acts of St. John the Evangelist (Levon Avdoyan)

The Making of Books

• Hiccups, Trip-ups & Total Disasters: Thoughts on Making Books (Russell Maret)
• The Liminal Experience of the Artist's Book (Na'ama Zussman)
• 2018 Denker Fellows Symposium (Saad, Layla - Vanatta, Cassandra (Casey) - Barnum, George)
• 2016 Denker Fellows Symposium (Barnum, George - Allen, Susanne - Balas, Malia - Hoover, Jodi)
• 2014 Denker Fellows Symposium
• Giambattista Bodoni: His Life & His World (Valerie Lester)
• The Saint John's Bible (Tim Ternes)

• Conversation with a Modern Bookbinder (Daniel Kelm)
• Authenticity of Print Materials (Various Speakers)
• Printing in Color: Lessons in Technique (Daniel De Simone)
• Of the Making of Many Books (Lynne Avadenka)
• Domestic Engraving and European Letterpress (Gaylord Schanilec & Russell Maret)

American Content

• Catch the Suffragists' Spirit: The Millers' Suffrage Scrapbooks (Rosemary Plakas)
• Edward Gorey Acquisitions (Glen Emil)
• Magical Momentos: Harry Houdini Scrapbooks (Mark Dimunation)

• A Spiteful Souvenir (Mark Dimunation)
• A Tale of Two Books: Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau (Mark Dimunation)
• Vanished in the Fog: Ethel Reed, the Beautiful Poster Lady (William S. Peterson)

Books and America's Foundation

• I Cannot Live Without Books: Thomas Jefferson's Library (Mark Dimunation)
• First Among Many: the Bay Psalm Book (David M. Rubenstien with Mark Dimunation)
• The Founding Fathers Unite: The Federalist Papers (Mark Dimunation)

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War

• Watch a President Age: Abraham Lincoln (Clark Evans)
• How a President Learned to Write: Abraham Lincoln (Clark Evans)
• The Most Wanted Man in America: John Wilkes Booth (Clark Evans)
• What Was in Lincoln's Pockets? (Clark Evans)
• The Union Sends a Message (Mark Dimunation)
• The Book Lincoln and Obama Have in Common (Clark Evans)

Other

• 2018 National Collegiate Book Collecting Awards Ceremony
• Why Hannah Mather Crocker's Observations on the Real Rights of Women Matters at 200 (Eileen Hunt Botting)
• A Literary Guide to Washington, D.C.: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers (Kim Roberts)
• Working Towards a Feminist History of Printing (Sarah Werner) 
• Rare Books Go Electronic (Jackie Coleman and Lee Ann Potter)
• Time and Timelessness: Everything You Wanted to Know About Time (Peter Zilahy)
• Artist as Alchemist (Amy Nichols)
• The Book That Save a Life: Rudyard Kipling's Kim (Mark Dimunation)
• The Seen and Unseen Legacy of James Joyce's Ulysses (Johnna Purchase)
• Rare Book & Special Collections Division (Clark Evans)
• Fiction Collections at the Library of Congress (Mark Dimunation)
• Russian Imperial Bindings as Artifact and a Key for Reconstruction of the Imperial Libraries (Ekaterina Gerasimova)

 
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