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While the JCB is known as a library of invaluable printed materials, it also holds important manuscript archives. Chief among our archival collections is the Brown Family Business Records (BFBR), which spans the 18th to the 20th centuries across 1345 boxes of files, letters, and...

The JCB has long been an exceptional rare book library for the study of the British invasion of the Rio de la Plata (1806-1807), a series of failed British military campaigns that played a significant role in the rising momentum of Argentinian and Uruguayan independence...

The scale of the New York Times “The Ransom” series as well as some provocative headlines and tweets caught historians’ attention – and inspired more than a little bit of ire. In May of 2022, the Times published its extensive historical investigation into how France...

Earlier this month I was delighted to share in a JCB post a bit about the four manuscript volumes we hold related to or written by Mary Brown Vanderlight, and also information about the fuller piece on her life–or what we know about– that I...

       In the JCB’s collections are 4 manuscripts that have had very little if any use over the years they’ve reposed on our shelves in the library stacks. Not listed in our finding aid to the Brown Family Business Papers, the extraordinary manuscript...

Curators Berie Mandelblatt and José Montelongo and Director Karin Wulf selected a handful of the new items we acquired for the Library in 2022. These ten items point to the range of our collecting interests, and also our focus on the totality of the collection...