Comparative Migrations and Multilingual Cultures of Print Sunday, July 14 - Friday, July 19, 2024 American Antiquarian Society 185 Salisbury Street Worcester, MA 01609 Led by Rodrigo Lazo and Patrick Erben Migration and print culture have long been entangled in the histories of communities residing in the territories that now comprise the United States. Numerous pamphlets,
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The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860 Katie McGettigan Thursday, May 25, 2023, at 2pm ET Approximately 60 minutes. This virtual program is free, but registration is required. You will be sent an email with a link and instructions on how to join the program upon registration. Closed captioning is available as an option
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Whenever I would tell someone I was cooking from Herman Melville’s
Moby-Dick for my next column, they would gleefully shriek, “Whale steaks!” And I would dither a bit and explain that no, those are illegal in America, and that I was instead planning to make two forms of chowder, clam and cod, that weren’t going to be very different from each other. In our Chowhound-fueled, extreme-eating kind of world, I felt a little silly. Chowder is an easy dish, and while there’s raging conflict over the primacy of New York style (tomato-based) versus New England style (white), and the finer variations of each, the topic seems to inspire passion in inverse proportion to its importance. (Potatoes or no potatoes? Avast.) In fact, as Perry Miller reports in