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2020 November 7, Allison Lange, "The Women's Suffrage Movement in Photographs"
2014 June 10, Clayton Lewis,
2020 December 9, "The Treasonous Correspondence of Benedict Arnold" - Virtual Discover Series
2014 June 10, Clayton Lewis, "The David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography"

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2014 June 10, Clayton Lewis, "The David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography"

Clements Library staff honors and celebrates Dave Tinder and his family and friends who have contributed to the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography. Clayton Lewis offers his comments and a slide presentation. Clayton Lewis is Curator of Graphic Materials where he oversees the Clements' collection of historical prints, photographs, artwork, illustrated sheet music, ephemera, and other visual materials.

2014 June 10, Clayton Lewis, "The David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography"
2020 December 9,
2020 February 11, McCurdy, John, "Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America"
2020 December 9, "The Treasonous Correspondence of Benedict Arnold" - Virtual Discover Series

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2020 December 9, "The Treasonous Correspondence of Benedict Arnold" - Virtual Discover Series

Access the follow-up resources from the program: https://conta.cc/39XX8PI In this virtual presentation, Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray discusses one of the Clements Library’s greatest treasures, the treasonous correspondence of Revolutionary War hero and turncoat Benedict Arnold. This discussion explores the details of Arnold’s treason, the contents and methods of his clandestine correspondence, and his effectiveness as an informant.

2020 December 9, "The Treasonous Correspondence of Benedict Arnold" - Virtual Discover Series
2020 February 11, McCurdy, John,
2018 October 23 – Katherine Grier “From ‘Favorites’ to ‘Fur Babies’: How Pets Became Part of the American Family”
2020 February 11, McCurdy, John, "Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America"

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2020 February 11, McCurdy, John, "Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America"

Drawing on his new book Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution (which he largely researched at the Clements Library), Dr. John McCurdy explains how the colonists made room for redcoats by reimagining places like home, city, and empire. They insisted on a right to privacy in their houses and civilian control of troops stationed in their cities, both of which they achieved through the Quartering Act. McCurdy also explores how protests by the Sons…

2020 February 11, McCurdy, John, "Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America"
2018 October 23 – Katherine Grier “From ‘Favorites’ to ‘Fur Babies’: How Pets Became Part of the American Family”
2021 March 9, "The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia" - Part 1/3 History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series
2018 October 23 – Katherine Grier “From ‘Favorites’ to ‘Fur Babies’: How Pets Became Part of the American Family”

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2018 October 23 – Katherine Grier “From ‘Favorites’ to ‘Fur Babies’: How Pets Became Part of the American Family”

Ideas about animals as family members have continued to evolve throughout history. In this lecture presented by the Clements Library, Dr. Katherine Grier examines the roles pets have played in the 19th and 20th century. She is the author of “Pets in America: A History” (2006), the first book to examine how past Americans lived with animals in their homes. Dr. Grier is director of the Museum Studies Program and professor in the Department of History, University of Delaware, where she…

2018 October 23 – Katherine Grier “From ‘Favorites’ to ‘Fur Babies’: How Pets Became Part of the American Family”
2021 March 9,
2020 December 18, Bookworm #26 – American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (Martha Kennedy)
2021 March 9, "The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia" - Part 1/3 History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series

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2021 March 9, "The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia" - Part 1/3 History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series

Access the follow-up resources from this program: https://conta.cc/2PVmKoJ In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press) appeared. A massive reference work of 1651 pages, it comprises 479 entries with 954 full color illustrations, written by 207 contributors from 26 countries. In this webinar series, Co-Editors Matthew Edney (University of Southern…

2021 March 9, "The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia" - Part 1/3 History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series
2020 December 18, Bookworm #26 – American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (Martha Kennedy)
2020 August 21, Bookworm #21 – PhD Students Studying American History
2020 December 18, Bookworm #26 – American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (Martha Kennedy)

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2020 December 18, Bookworm #26 – American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (Martha Kennedy)

In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, Martha H. Kennedy (Curator of popular and applied graphic art, Library of Congress) discusses her book Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists in conversation with graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner (Associate Professor, U-M Stamps School of Art & Design). Books and resources discussed in the program are listed at: https://conta.cc/3mxmabc.The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss…

2020 December 18, Bookworm #26 – American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (Martha Kennedy)
2020 August 21, Bookworm #21 – PhD Students Studying American History
2018 February 20 - James Lewis "Making Sense of the Burr Conspiracy"
2020 August 21, Bookworm #21 – PhD Students Studying American History

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2020 August 21, Bookworm #21 – PhD Students Studying American History

In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, we enjoy a conversation with Hunter Harris, Zachary Kopin, and Jonathan Quint—all PhD candidates in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. Books and resources discussed in the program are listed at: https://conta.cc/31ffWW3. The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at…

2020 August 21, Bookworm #21 – PhD Students Studying American History
2018 February 20 - James Lewis
2020 November 7, Allison Lange, "The Women's Suffrage Movement in Photographs"
2018 February 20 - James Lewis "Making Sense of the Burr Conspiracy"

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2018 February 20 - James Lewis "Making Sense of the Burr Conspiracy"

This lecture by Dr. James E. Lewis, Jr. was presented by the Clements Library to highlight the release of Lewis’ book, “The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis” (Princeton University Press, 2017). Lewis, a professor of History at Kalamazoo College, examines how rumors and reports of Aaron Burr's activities in the trans-Appalachian West in 1805 and 1806 produced a sense of crisis that was broadly held across the new nation. He discusses the…

2018 February 20 - James Lewis "Making Sense of the Burr Conspiracy"
2020 November 7, Allison Lange,
2014 June 10, Clayton Lewis, "The David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography"
2020 November 7, Allison Lange, "The Women's Suffrage Movement in Photographs"

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2020 November 7, Allison Lange, "The Women's Suffrage Movement in Photographs"

A Virtual Lecture presented by the Clements Library and the Michigan Photographic Historical Society Since the nation’s founding, Americans have used images to define political power and gender roles. Popular pictures praised male political leaders, while cartoons mocked women who sought rights. In the mid-nineteenth century, women’s rights activists like Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony challenged these powerful norms by distributing engraved and photographic portraits that…

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Discover Series

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    2021 March 23, "Digitization and…

    2021 March 23, "Digitization and Cartographic Research" - Part 3/3, History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series

    Access the follow-up resources from this program: https://conta.cc/39kfglN In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, The History of…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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    duration 1 hour 20 minutes

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    2021 March 16, "The Minutiae Behind Mapmaking" - Part 2/3, History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series

    2021 March 16, "The Minutiae Behind…

    2021 March 16, "The Minutiae Behind Mapmaking" - Part 2/3, History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series

    Access the follow-up resources from this program: https://conta.cc/3bVTh6x In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, The History of…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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    duration 1 hour 29 minutes

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    2021 March 9, "The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia" - Part 1/3 History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series

    2021 March 9, "The Building Blocks for…

    2021 March 9, "The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia" - Part 1/3 History of Cartography Virtual Discover Series

    Access the follow-up resources from this program: https://conta.cc/2PVmKoJ In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, The History of…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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Recent Lectures

  • Thumbnail for 2021 May 5, Aston Gonzalez, "Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century"

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    duration 1 hour 29 minutes

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    2021 May 5, Aston Gonzalez, "Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century"

    2021 May 5, Aston Gonzalez, "Visualizing…

    2021 May 5, Aston Gonzalez, "Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century"

    Historian Aston Gonzalez discusses his book, "Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century" (2020), which studies…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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  • Thumbnail for 2021 April 22, Serena Zabin, "The Boston Massacre: A Family History"

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    duration 58 minutes 42 seconds

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    2021 April 22, Serena Zabin, "The Boston Massacre: A Family History"

    2021 April 22, Serena Zabin, "The Boston…

    2021 April 22, Serena Zabin, "The Boston Massacre: A Family History"

    The story of the Boston Massacre is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, most accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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  • Thumbnail for 2021 Feb. 24, Tour of “Bending Lines,” a digital exhibition on persuasive maps at the Leventhal Map & Education Center

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    duration 1 hour 19 minutes

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    2021 Feb. 24, Tour of “Bending Lines,” a digital exhibition on persuasive maps at the Leventhal Map & Education Center

    2021 Feb. 24, Tour of “Bending…

    2021 Feb. 24, Tour of “Bending Lines,” a digital exhibition on persuasive maps at the Leventhal Map & Education Center

    Historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library discusses representation, reality, and the…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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The Clements Bookworm

  • Thumbnail for 2021 December 17, Bookworm #38 – Readings that have influenced Clements Staff

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    2021 December 17, Bookworm #38 – Readings that have influenced Clements Staff

    In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, staff highlight books and articles that shaped their professional approaches to primary sources from early American history.…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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  • Thumbnail for 2021 November 19, Bookworm #37 – Native American Boarding Schools as a Tool of U.S. Empire (Veronica Pasfield)

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    duration 1 hour 32 minutes

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    2021 November 19, Bookworm #37 – Native American Boarding Schools as a Tool of U.S. Empire (Veronica Pasfield)

    2021 November 19, Bookworm #37 – Native…

    2021 November 19, Bookworm #37 – Native American Boarding Schools as a Tool of U.S. Empire (Veronica Pasfield)

    In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, Dr. Veronica Pasfield discusses her continuing research to understand the full purpose and force of federal Indian boarding…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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  • Thumbnail for 2021 October 15, Bookworm #36 – Book Fairs 101: the hunt and the hype

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    duration 1 hour 11 minutes

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    2021 October 15, Bookworm #36 – Book Fairs 101: the hunt and the hype

    2021 October 15, Bookworm #36 – Book Fairs…

    2021 October 15, Bookworm #36 – Book Fairs 101: the hunt and the hype

    In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, our panelists are Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair organizers Jay Platt and Garrett Scott. They will discuss the history of the…

    From Isaac Burgdorf

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