The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is an independent research library founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Collections include books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, manuscripts, music, graphic arts, and local histories.

Recent Acquisition
Transatlantic Childrens' Tract:
This transatlantic imprint is apparently an early collaboration of tract publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons and S.W. Partridge and Co. more ...

New AAS Online Resource
Read, browse and search transcriptions of the nineteenth-century papers of the Grant-Burr Family more ...

Alliance for AAS
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Free public tours of Antiquarian Hall, the Society's library building, are given every Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The tour lasts about one hour.

Preview the new AAS online resource, Northern Visions of Race, Region and Reform in the Press and Letters of Freedmen and Freedmen's Teachers in the Civil War Era, created by Professor Lucia Knoles of Assumption College working from primary resources at the American Antiquarian Society. It will soon be available on the AAS website

For a complete listing of upcoming events at AAS, please view our online calendar of events

Holiday Closing
November 26-28 : The library will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday

Academic Seminar
December 2 : David Paul Nord will present Boston, 1737: The News Milieu
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TAH Professional Development Days
December 2-5 : "Capital, Labor, and Technology, 1790-1920" will be led by Bruce Laurie and will be held at Assumption College
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November 19, 2008
Applications for the 2009 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, "Book History and Media History," are now available online.

November 6, 2008
Digital images now illustrate the Photographs of Native Americans Inventory.

October 23, 2008
A new page in the guide to library collections discusses African-American History Resources at AAS.

October 20, 2008
The call for papers for the CHAViC 2009 Conference Destined for Men: Visual Materials for Male Audiences, 1750 - 1880 has been announced. The conference will be held at AAS October 16-17. 2009.

October 7, 2008
The latest issue of Common-place is now available online.

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