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The Journey is Underway for Before 'Farm to Table'
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The Journey is Underway for Before 'Farm to Table'

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The Collation

By now, you may have read about—or participated in—several activities linked to the project Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. They have included food-related pop-up exhibitions at Folger public programs (the next one is for A Christmas…

Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture
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Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture

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Catherine Elliott Tisdale

A guest post by Catherine Elliott Tisdale How do you remember loved ones who have passed away or family members who have scattered across the four winds? Today if we lose someone, we turn to photos, family films, emails, texts,…

Teaching and collaborating
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Teaching and collaborating

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Sarah Werner

Last weekend, the Folger Institute and the Folger Undergraduate Program held a 3-day workshop on Teaching Book History. 50 librarians and faculty gathered from a wide range of institutions—small liberal arts colleges to regional schools to highly selective research universities—bringing…

Early modern book history: it's not just for English majors
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Early modern book history: it's not just for English majors

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Sarah Werner

Every seminar I teach on early modern book history, I like to start with a class asking what is book history? We read Robert Darnton’s essay, of course, along with pieces from D. F. McKenzie and Roger Chartier, along with…

modern adventures in printing
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modern adventures in printing

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Sarah Werner

In keeping with the spirit of my last couple of posts, this one is also about printing, but this time as an activity that my students and I did in our Books and Early Modern Culture seminar. The Folger is…

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