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American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

Learned society

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and national research library of pre-twentieth century American History and culture. Its main building, known also as Antiquarian Hall, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

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. The mission of the AAS is to collect, preserve and make available for study all printed records of what is now known as the United States of America This includes printed records from first European

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The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

Learned society

National Historic Landmark

European ethnic groups

The European peoples are the various nations and ethnic groups of Europe. European ethnology is the field of anthropology focusing on Europe....
settlement through the year 1876.

The AAS offers programs for professional scholars, pre-collegiate, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, professional artists, writers, genealogists, and the general public. AAS has many digital collections available, including A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1788-1824 which includes the election data gathered by AAS employee Phil Lampi

Phil Lampi

Phil Lampi is a scholar and historian. His career has been defined by his ground-breaking work reassembling records of early American election returns....
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The Library collection of the AAS contains over three million books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, graphic arts materials and manuscripts as well as books from all fifty U.S. states, most of Canada

Canada

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and the British West Indies

British West Indies

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are included in their repository. The Society has two thirds of the books printed in the United States before 1820. Many of these volumes are excedingly rare and many are unique. One of the more famous volumes held there is a copy of the very first book printed in America, The Bay Psalm Book

Bay Psalm Book

The Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in British North America.The book is a Psalter, first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
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History

AAS was founded by Isaiah Thomas

Isaiah Thomas

Isaiah Thomas , was an United States History of American newspapers and author. He performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Worcester, Massachusetts and reported the first account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord....
on October 24, 1812 by an act of the Massachusetts General Court

Massachusetts General Court

The Massachusetts General Court is the State legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name "General Court" is a hold-over from the Colonialism Era, when this body also sat in judgment of judicial appeals cases....
. It is the third oldest historical society and the first to be national in scope. Isaiah Thomas

Isaiah Thomas

Isaiah Thomas , was an United States History of American newspapers and author. He performed the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Worcester, Massachusetts and reported the first account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord....
started the collection with approximately 8,000 books from his personal library. The first library building was erected in 1820 in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in the United States. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts....
. This building was later abandoned and a new building was constructed. It was completed in 1910 and stands on the corner of Park Avenue and Salisbury Street. There have been several additions to this building to accommodate the growing collection.

Notable Members

John Adams

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Thomas Jefferson

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James Madison

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James Monroe

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John Q. Adams

Andrew Jackson

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Theodore Roosevelt

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William H. Taft

Woodrow Wilson

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Calvin Coolidge

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Jimmy Carter

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American Antiquarian Society

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