Highlighted Projects

Projects include different types of aggregated materials, including lists of items and digitized catalogs from past exhibits.

Americana allows you to create your own project. The projects displayed in this section were either created or highlighted by the John Carter Brown Library.

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Subterranean Worlds: Under the Earth in the Early Americas (Digital Catalogue, 2015)

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Islamic Encounters: America, Europe, and the Middle East before 1835 (Digital Catalogue, 2008)

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☆ Atlantic Materia Medica (Digital Catalogue, 2009)

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Imaginary Voyages in the Eighteenth Century (Exhibition Catalogue, 1999)

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☆ Encountering the New World, 1493 to 1800 (Exhibition Catalogue, 1991)

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The Italians and the Creation of America (Published Catalogue, 1980)

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The Book in the Americas: The Role of Books and Printing in the Development of Culture and Society in Colonial Latin America (Exhibition Catalogue, 1988)

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☆ Africans in the New World, 1493-1834 (Exhibition Catalogue, 1988)

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☆ Bodies of Water / Bodies at Work (Digital Catalogue, 2018)

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☆ Global Americana: The Wider Worlds of a Singular Collection (Digital Exhibition, 2017)

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The Americas on Fire (Digital Catalogue, 2017)

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☆ Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas (Digital Catalogue, 2020)

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Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana (Digital Catalogue, 2019)