Another great exhibition at the @ransomcenter.bsky.social From early biblical fragments, to a huge Book of the Dead, this is something you need to see. Excellent, as always, @aarontpratt.bsky.social

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For our final session of the day, on ‘Confessional Debates in Education’, we start with Gunilla Eschenbach (German Literature Archive Marbach/University of Stuttgart): ‘Rewriting the Catechism: Pietist Pedagogy and Child Agency around 1700’ #USTC26

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Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

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Oh, I know, and have contemplated at length, the lack of watermarks, but I really want someone else to deal with it because I am not a paper historian

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this key part of the MILTON’S LIBRARY project would not have been possible without funding from @pennstateuniv.bsky.social COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS. liberal arts. 🙏🏼 cc: @aarontpratt.bsky.social @jes1003.bsky.social

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