Including important early books demonstrating the engagement of Germans with the New World, this new exhibition will explore the more than three centuries of transatlantic German contexts in the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library.
In this significant contribution to the historiography of Toussaint Louverture, David Geggus delineates what we do and don’t know about the physical appearance of the iconic figure of the Haitian Revolution through the investigation of both written and visual sources.
In 2012, the John Carter Brown Library acquired a previously unknown Mexican imprint from 1609 that is fascinating in many ways. Read about it on the JCB Books Speak blog.