Other wonderful things about #brownuniversity #commencement include the creative uses of the #JCBLibrary for pictures and for a good viewing spot of the main green in the shade!

Now that I've finished my book, I have been even more excited about related archival materials, and sharing them either on my IG or my blog. This is from a codex at the #JCBLibrary that I stumbled across last week. Close text kept across 18th-20th centuries it also has marvelous scraps pasted in. #History #Histodons #VernacularGenealogy #VastEarlyAmerica

Good piece in #Smithsonian, illustrated by a #JCBLibrary publication in Spanish-Timucua, about the collaboration of historian Alejandra Dubcovsky and linguistics scholar Aaron Broadwell on the history and the full scope of Timucua language. They published an essay in #EarlyAmericanStudies last year. #history #histodons #VastEarlyAmerica https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/with-their-powers-combined-two-scholars-may-have-deciphered-a-long-lost-native-language-180982118/

Launched the #JCBLibrary new digital platform last week, too-- Americana. It integrates all of our digital assets, catalog and digital images, and project space and exhibits. We're super proud of what it can do already, and we're hoping for lots of feedback, so please check it out! #libraries #archives #VastEarlyAmerica #EarlyAmericas https://americana.jcblibrary.org

As part of our #OpenDoors events at the #JCBLibrary we created a virtual exhibit from a legacy c2000 exhibit on #SimonBolivar. News and links here: #history #histodons #libraries https://jcblibrary.org/news/jcb-launches-simon-bolivar-libertador-virtual-experience-bromsen-room

So happy with the refurbished historic doors and the new glass doors @ the #JCBLibrary! We had great opening events last. #libraries #VastEarlyAmerica

Today we welcome tours of graduating #BrownUniversity seniors @ the #JCBLibrary and it's maybe my last chance to tell them how urgently they need history, humanities --and an understanding of the foundational importance of the early Americas. It's complexity, violence, all of it.
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Too intense, I'll lose them in 30 seconds??!!
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Will try anyway!
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#VastEarlyAmerica #HigherEd #Humanities