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All Necessary and Useful Knowledge: Thomas Bray’s Libraries for Colonial America at Boston Athenaeum
Free - $15
The William Orville Thomson Endowed Lecture All Necessary and Useful Knowledge: Thomas Bray’s Libraries for Colonial America with John Buchtel This free-for-members event is made possible with support from the William Orville Thomson Endowment, which is generously funded by Athenæum Proprietor Peter Thomson. In 1697, Thomas Bray, a priest in the Church of England, published […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.