H-SHEAR

On Tuesday, April 29, at 5:00 PM the American Antiquarian Society will offer a Regional Academic Seminar at the Society's Goddard-Daniels House in Worcester, MA. These seminars are offered in association with the history departments ofBrown University, Clark University, and the University of Connecticut.

The talk on April 29 will be by Maria Alessandra Bollettino, an assistant professor of history at Framingham State University and a current National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at AAS. The title of Prof. Bollettino's talk will be: The British Empire’s “Sable Arm”: Black Combatants in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Caribbean and Postwar Antislavery.

Lunch Bite - 18th century political cartoons and caricatures
Friday, April 18
12:30 p.m.
Free Admission

Join Rachel Jirka, research services librarian, as she explores 18th-century political cartoons and caricatures and how they amused and informed the Revolutionary-era public. The presentation will feature a political cartoon of a two-faced George Washington in a hot air balloon, demonstrating international concerns over the new republic after the war’s end. The presentation will last approximately 30 minutes with time afterwards for questions and up-close viewing of the cartoons.