Welcome
Welcome to the Chapel Hill Rare Book Blog!About
Contributors
Categories
- Acquisitions (40)
- Collections (94)
- Events (89)
- Halloween (4)
- News (16)
- Past Events (1)
- Travels (6)
- Uncategorized (9)
Tags
- African-American literature
- American imprints
- artists' books
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Banned books
- Black History Month
- cabinets of curiosities
- calendars
- caricature
- Christina Moody
- Chronicles of Empire
- Civil Wars
- Early Modern
- early printed books
- encyclopedias
- English literature
- Feminism
- French literature
- Hanes Foundation
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- History of the Book
- incunabula
- Irish literature
- James Joyce
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- knowledge
- Latin American literature
- love
- Maya
- Meaningful Marks Exhibition
- millionth volumes
- Natural history books
- poetry
- publishers' bindings
- Rooms of Wonder
- Scientific Illustration
- Shakespeare
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Stuart Collection
- Victor Montejo
- W. B. Yeats
- weather
- William Wordsworth
- Yucatec Maya Summer Institute
RBC Links
Blogroll
Archives
December 2019 S M T W T F S « Nov 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Subscribe (RSS)
Meta
Tag Archives: American imprints
Student-Curated Exhibition: Imagining the U.S. Civil War
The RBC is pleased to be sponsoring the current Wilson Library exhibition, Imagining the U.S. Civil War 1861-1900, curated by Professor Eliza Richards’s undergraduate seminar in American literature. On April 24, the show opened with a reception, where the 21 student curators … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged American imprints, U.S. Civil War
Comments Off on Student-Curated Exhibition: Imagining the U.S. Civil War
A Working Christmas
In 1802, the great American printer Isaiah Thomas retired from business to write his landmark book The History of Printing in America (1810). At that time, he handed over his firm to his son of the same name. The latter … Continue reading
Posted in Collections
Tagged American imprints, Christmas, Isaiah Thomas
Comments Off on A Working Christmas