Welcome to The John Carter Brown Library The John Carter Brown Library welcomes individuals and communities from around the world to research, learn, and share knowledge about the early Americas through its collections Read more Tuesday July 21 You're Invited ... Coming up Past events Open Today 10 am-12:45 pm, 2 pm-4:45 pm Reading Room For registered researchers Exhibition Gallery Admission is free and open to the public You're Invited ... Coming up You're Invited ... Initiative 2026 and Beyond at the JCB Lecture Christopher Bonner on Memory of the American Revolution in Black Politics (Part of The Revolution Is News) July 2026 Coming up Lecture Joshua Greenberg on Money (Part of The Revolution Is News) Tuesday, August 4 at 4:00pm Lecture Linford Fisher (Part of The Revolution Is News) Tuesday, September 1 at 4:00pm Lecture Jennifer Morgan on Partus Sequitur Ventrem (Part of The Revolution Is News) Tuesday, September 8 at 4:00pm Welcome to the history of the early Americas, North and South Collections Seminars and Workshops Fellowships and Research Opportunities News Americana Welcome and access Plan your visit Plan your visit Reading Room Appointments Class visit Newly added to our online collection Sample some of the items recently added to Americana, the JCB's digital collection. State of Rhode-Island... Resolved, that all the troops...when called to service, shall be under the same rules and regulations as the Continental Army (Dec. 11, 1776) The Declaration of Independence, 1776 Plan of the island of Rhode Island under French Occupation, [ca. 1780]
