The Library of Congress Is Your Library
An overview of the history of the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit ...
Library of Congress
Drawing as an Art Form in Medieval Manuscripts
Learn more about the exhibition Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages, on view at the Met June 2 - August 23, 2009: ...
The Met
Fernando Pessoa: An Englishly Portuguese, Endlessly Multiple Poet
Richard Zenith presented a lecture on Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most important literary figures of the 20th century and a towering figure in modernism.
Library of Congress
The Jewish Book Since Printing
A lecture by Dr. Emile Schrijver on the history of the Jewish book since the invention of printing. For captions, transcript, and more information visit ...
Library of Congress
Frederick Ilchman: "Birth in Venice: Early Art Collecting in the 'Serenissima'"
April 13, 2019. Frederick Ilchman presents his lecture "'Birth in Venice: Early Art Collecting in the 'Serenissima'" as part of the two-day symposium 'When ...
The Frick Collection
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Hear two outstanding scholars consider the art of biography and poetics of portraiture in fifteenth-century Italy. Presented with the exhibition The Renaissance ...
The Met
Philippe de Montebello in Conversation with Jonathan Ruffer
In conjunction with the exhibition "Zurbarán's Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle," de Montebello and Ruffer discuss the history of this ...
The Frick Collection
An Alternative History of the Atlas, with Ayesha Ramachandran
What is the origin of the world atlas as we know it today? How does the atlas as a key genre of intellectual analysis and scientific revolution fit into histories of the ...
Rare Book School
Jeffrey Forgeng Presents a Medieval Manual: The Art Of Combat
One of the many treasures acquired by the Worcester Art Museum as part of the Higgins Armory collection is a rare original copy of Joachim Meyer's ...
GBH Forum Network
Lecture | From the Wunderkammer to the Public Museum
James Delbourgo, Associate Professor, History of Science and Atlantic World, Rutgers University In 1759, the British Museum opened its doors for the first ...
YaleBritishArt
Dr. Tharoor #JLF2017 The Theft of the Raj The British Empire in India
Dr. Shashi Tharoor @ Jaipur Literature Festival 2017. https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/speaker-post/shashi-tharoor/ ...
Dr. Shashi Tharoor Official
Pompeii on the Potomac: Brumidi's 19th Century, Roman-style Frescos in the US Capitol
Elise Friedland discussesd the early 19th-Century publication that Constantino Brumidi used to design and execute the frescos in the U.S. Capitol, Wilhelm ...
Library of Congress
Finding Your Ancestor in American Fraternal Organization Records
Live Broadcast: August 24, 2017 Presented by: Rhonda R. McClure, Senior Genealogist Was your ancestor a Freemason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Columbus, ...
AmericanAncestors
Saving Libraries During a Time of War
Daniel Gullo discussed efforts to recover manuscripts damaged by acts of war in Malta, ensuring that the contents of these irreplaceable witnesses to centuries ...
Library of Congress
Future of Technical Services (Part 1): An Overview of the Future of Technical Services
This recorded webinar is part 1 of the 3-part series, The Future of Technical Services: Part One: An Overview of the Future of Traditional Services (presented on ...
alctsce
Using Manuscripts in Your Genealogical Research
Live Broadcast: February 19, 2015 Presented by: Timothy Salls, Manager of Manuscript Collections at NEHGS NEHGS has one of the largest collections of ...
AmericanAncestors
Ellen Prokop: "The Father of Modern Painting? El Greco's Critical Fortunes"
Ellen Prokop, Associate Photoatchivist at The Frick Art Reference Library, presents her lecture, "The Father of Modern Painting? El Greco's Critical Fortunes," ...
The Frick Collection
2.1 Printing Revolution & Society 1450-1500. Venice Conference, Palazzo Ducale, 19-21 Sept. 2018
DAY TWO: THE TRANSMISSION OF TEXTS IN PRINT AND THE DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION OF BOOKS [1st session] Chair Henry Woudhuysen, Rector ...
PRINTING R-EVOLUTION 1450-1500
Oxford Bibliographies for Students
Students and professors from a variety of academic backgrounds discuss how students and researchers can use Oxford Bibliographies in the classroom and the ...
Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
The Sixtieth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from Ancient Ro
The Sixtieth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from Ancient Rome to Salvador Dalí, Part 5: Dynasty: Collecting, ...
National Gallery of Art
Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books
Mark Glickman discussed his book, "Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books," an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the ...
Library of Congress
Turning Cortés and Moctezuma Upside Down
03-04-14 Institute of Latin American Studies http://www.sas.ac.uk/ ...
SchAdvStudy
Archeologist Tracks 16th Century Invasion of the U.S.
The National Arts Club hosts a presentation from archeologist and anthropologist Dr. Jerald T. Milanich. Dr. Milanich charts the early 16th century expeditions of ...
The National Arts Club
Focus 45: PPCM Master's Essay Presentations
Students in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management—the George Eastman Museum's joint graduate program with the University of ...
George Eastman Museum
Translation as Storytelling - Susan Bernofsky
'Translation as Storytelling' -Susan Bernofsky Translating is always a sort of storytelling, a way of giving an account of a reading of a work. In retranslating classic ...
British Centre for Literary Translation
Transatlantic Call: People to People
CBS and the BBC launched "Transatlantic Call: People to People" during World War II as an exchange series of 13 radio programs designed to bring the two ...
Library of Congress
Observatorio Cervantes - Harvard. George Ticknor and his Contribution to Hispanism
This lecture celebrates the life and work of renowned Hispanist George Ticknor (1791-1871), the first Professor of French and Spanish at Harvard College.
Observatorio (Instituto Cervantes at Harvard)
Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) in the United States
Material evidence in Incunabula (MEI) is an international database, freely accessible, specifically designed to record and search the material evidence of ...
The Bibliographical Society of America
Deciphering Secrets MOOCs: Introduction to the Archivo Municipal de Toledo and Its "Secret Archive"
Click: CC for English or Spanish Subtitles In this introductory lecture, Dr. Director Mariano García Ruipérez details the historical manuscripts held by the Archivo ...
Roger L. Martínez-Davila
John Warren | Everything You Need To Know About Book Metadata (And Why It Matters)
Why Meta-Data Marketing Matters John Warren on Using Metadata to Sell More Books John Warren has more than 25 years of senior management experience ...
Rohit Bhargava
Introduction to the Exhibition Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe
National Gallery of Art
A History of TV by Mark Schubin
Thomas Edison's earliest patent filing (a caveat) for motion pictures was in 1888, but 11 years earlier the first publication about television appeared, and there ...
SchubinCafe
Prof. James Loxley - Ben Jonson's Road North
Professor James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, "Ben Jonson's Road North" In July 1618, the poet and ...
The University of Edinburgh
"Sorolla and America" Symposium Part 1 of 3
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2014 Saturday, February 8, 2-5 PM Sorolla and America 2 PM Blanca Pons-Sorolla, Exhibition Curator, Introduction and ...
Meadows Museum Dallas
2019 Virtual Genealogy Fair Session 1: Exploring History Hub for Genealogists and Researchers
Schedule & Handouts: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair ⇒ Event Evaluation Form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KYREventEval ...
US National Archives
The Shape of Our Collections
Graeme Hawley, Head of General Collections, presents novel approaches to classifying the Library's collections in this recorded talk. He considers ways to ...
National Library of Scotland
Cataloging Monographs with RDA (CC)
South Carolina State Library
2016 Sonia Galletti Lecture: "When the United States Spoke French"
Monday, March 14, 2016 John Carter Brown Library, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, ...
Brown University
How to Find Free Images | Public Domain Pictures
If you want to know how to find free to use images then this new tutorial is for you. This time it is a visit to New York to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the MET ...
Susan Taylor Brown
Redescubriendo el pasado con tecnología española: los casos del British Museum y British Library
08/06/2016. Nora McGregor, British Library El Museo, en colaboración con Factoría Cultural Madrid, presentó los proyectos Micropasts y LibCrowds que el ...
Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España
Library of exile: writing experiences of migration and exile
This timely and urgent discussion explored how literature can represent the experience of migration and exile. Chaired by contemporary artist and writer ...
British Museum Events
Stamp Chat: Beer Revenue Stamps and Brews!
Presented by Eric Lee.
American Philatelic Society
