Here are four readable jpegs of early printed  copies of the Declaration of Independence featured on the cover of Printing History NS38.  [Read more]

“Font” as a misnomer for “typeface” is a modern usage that arrived with the digital era. Perhaps the wider appreciation of a choice of typefaces, once people became tech-savvy, led to this more sophisticated-sounding term coming into use. In printing terms, a font means a whole set of one size of metal type, and is sometimes referred to as a fount. [Read more]

The  APHA History of Printing Timeline, launched in 2015, has added numerous significant entries. APHA Membership and the public are invited to review and  are welcome to submit suggestions and corrections via the Contact form.

APHA members will soon receive Printing History 38. This 76-page issue features these articles:

• Rebellion on the Page: Jeff Sharlet and Vietnam GI

  Sedition by Another Name: Business Partnerships and the Local Politics of the Imperial Crisis

• Pierre Marteau and the Catalog: “Fixing” a Fictitious Imprint in the Twenty-First-Century Library Catalog

• Alms for the Sick: Printing as Quiet Activism in Public Health

• Interview with Members of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative 

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The Watermark, UMass Boston student literary magazine, 2004 (Carston Anderson)

Introduction

Let us say you, in your adventures as a student or a reader, come across an archive or a library of books. Let us also say that it makes claims of being official, mandated, or institutional, something along the lines of a special collections branch of a university archive, for example. It keeps its books in duplicate and makes PDF files available to you on occasion. This situation, while common enough, must be viewed by the engaged individual with some good-natured suspicion. After all, a PDF is not a book. And two exact copies of the same book might as well be one book. [Read more]

Printing History 39 will spotlight print practices that engage critically with the theme of borders and border crossings. The topic can be approached literally and/or conceptually. We are particularly interested in articles that challenge, upend, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity, imagined communities, and borderlands. [Read more]

From Facebook:

Hi APHA, I have a unique ‘living history’ story for your researchers. I am a 10th-generation descendant of Samuel Green (Harvard’s printer). I currently solo-operate the print shop at Illinois Central College, reviving a department of 14 down to 1. [Read more]

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We are delighted to announce the slate of candidates for APHA officers and board trustees who will be standing for election at the Annual Meeting on Saturday, January 24, 2026. This talented and dynamic group is essential to the continued growth and success of the American Printing History Association, and we encourage all members to participate in the upcoming vote.

The Nominating Committee
E. Haven Hawley, Chair
Hosea Baskin, J. Fernando Peña, Sara T. Sauers, and Nina Schneider

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