Tag: Columbia
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On Clermont’s Shelves: The Columbiad by Joel Barlow (1809)

Hi everyone, curatorial assistant Dawson Escott here again with another obscure but really fascinating book I found while researching Clermont’s collection. But I’d like to start with a bit of a wider scope: When the United States was a young nation, its writers faced an identity crisis. What would American literature look like? With its…
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