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7 January 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Margery Heffron, Marc Friedlander Fellow
"Not 'My Dearest Friend:' The Courtship Correspondence of Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams"
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Free and open
to the public
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10 January 2009 - 19 December 2009
Saturday Tours
Led by Anne Bentley, MHS Curator of Art
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Free and open
to the public
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13 January 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Tish Tuttle, M. Tuttle & Associates
"Geological Record of Paleo-Earthquakes in the New Madrid Region"
Comment: Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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14 January 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Evan Cordulack, College of William and Mary
"Constructing Saigon: Space, Cultures, and the American War in Vietnam"
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Free and open
to the public
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21 January 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Shane Landrum, Brandeis University
The State's Big Family Bible: Birth Certificates and American Identities, 1890-present."
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Free and open
to the public
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22 January 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Patrick Fuery, University of Newcastle (Australia)
"The Effluvia of the Sublime: The Salem Witch Trials as the Uncanny"
Comment: Walter Woodward, University of Connecticut
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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28 January 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Michael Block, University of Southern California
"New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California"
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Free and open
to the public
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29 January 2009
Thursday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Special Event
Ken Burns
Lunchtime with Ken Burns
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Free and open
to the public
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29 January 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Diana Williams, Wellesley College
"Through a Glass Darkly: Staging 'The Octoroon' in Postbellum New Orleans"
Comment: Thomas DeFrantz, MIT
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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3 February 2009
Tuesday, 6:00 PM
Lecture
John Stauffer
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln
This event is co-sponsored by Primary Source.
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Lecture
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Free and open
to the public
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4 February 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Cheryl Beredo, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
"From Colonial Bureau to Commonwealth Institution: Cultures of Government Archives in the Phillipines, 1898-1935"
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Free and open
to the public
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9 February 2009
Monday, 6:00 PM
Conversation
Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University
Who Owns the History of the Woman Suffrage Movement?
Facilitated by Steve Marini, Wellesley College.
This event is part of the Puzzles in Time Conversation Series.
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Conversation
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Free and open
to the public
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10 February 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Megan Nelson, California State University, Fullerton
"Battle Logs: The Ruins of Nature and the American Civil War"
Comment: Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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11 February 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Michael Hoberman, Fitchburg State College
"New Israel/New England: Jewish Merchants in Puritan Boston, 1649-1722"
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Free and open
to the public
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12 February 2009
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College
"Race Work, Women's Work: African American Women and History in Massachusetts"
Comment: Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts at Boston
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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24 February 2009
Tuesday, 6:00 PM
Conversation
John Hanson Mitchell
Digging Boston
Facilitated by Steve Marini, Wellesley College.
This event is part of the Puzzles in Time Conversation Series.
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Conversation
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Free and open
to the public
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25 February 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Joseph Edgecombe, Independent Scholar
"Change 101: Architects and Founders, the Dynamic Politics of William Lloyd Garrison and Shirley Chisholm"
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Free and open
to the public
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26 February 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Sarah Nytroe, Boston College
"Azusa Street and the Pioneer Jubilee: Public Space and the Formation of Religious Identity"
Comment: Stephanie Yuhl, College of the Holy Cross
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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4 March 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Strother Roberts, Northwestern University
"The Contentious Valley: Environmental Violence in the Colonial Connecticut River Valley"
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Free and open
to the public
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5 March 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Kevin Sweeney, Amherst College
"The Military, Political and Religious Origins of Regional Gun Cultures in Early America, 1620-1800"
Comment: Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Note: This session will start at 5:30 p.m.
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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5 March 2009
Thursday, 12:15 PM
- 1:00 PM
Lecture
Bonnie Hurd Smith
The Long Road to Suffrage and Beyond: An Overview of Boston Women's Legal History
Co-Sponsored by Old South Meeting House
This event will take place at Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston.
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Free and open
to the public
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10 March 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Peter Shulman, Case Western Reserve University
"Ships, Security, and the Politics of Trees: The Maritime Origins of American Forest Conservation"
Comment: Joseph F. Cullon, Dartmouth College
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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12 March 2009
Thursday, 12:15 PM
- 1:00 PM
Lecture
Jayne Gordon & Kathleen Barker, Massachuetts Historical Society
Aliza Saivetz, Old South Meeting House
Women against the Vote: Anti-Suffrage in Massachusetts
Co-Sponsored by Old South Meeting House
This event will take place at Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston.
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Free and open
to the public
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18 March 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Patricia Fanning, Bridgewater State College
"Through an Uncommon Lense: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day"
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Free and open
to the public
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19 March 2009
Thursday, 12:15 PM
- 1:00 PM
Lecture
Sally Matson as Susan B. Anthony
In Her Own Words: Susan B. Anthony
Co-sponsored by Old South Meeting House
This event will take place at Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston.
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Free and open
to the public
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19 March 2009
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Amy G. Richter, Clark University
"A Domestic Market: Reframing International Marriages in the Age of U.S. Expansionism"
Comment: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
Location: Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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26 March 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College
"Italian Immigrant Women and Anarchist Feminism in the Industrializing U.S."
Comment: Judith Smith, University of Massachusetts--Boston
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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26 March 2009
Thursday, 12:15 PM
- 1:00 PM
Lecture
Polly Kaufman, University of Southern Maine
The Struggle for a Unified Voice: Women and the Boston School Committee
Co-Sponsored by Old South Meeting House
This event will take place at Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston.
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Free and open
to the public
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1 April 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas
"Learning to See: Gender in the 18th Century Atlantic World"
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Free and open
to the public
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2 April 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
James Leamon, Bates College
"The Reverend Mr. Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist, and the Search for Status"
Comment: John Tyler, Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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11 April 2009
Saturday, 5:00 PM
Lecture
William M. Fowler, Northeastern University
"A Day to be Remembered"
Co-sponsored by The Concord Free Public Library and Minute Man National Historical Park. This event is part of the Minute Man Anniversary Lecture Series.
This event will take place at the Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street, Concord, Massachusetts.
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Free and open
to the public
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14 April 2009
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Blake Harrison, Southern Connecticut State University
"Mobility, Farm Work, and the New England Landscape: The Case of Connecticut Tobacco."
Comment: Matthew Garcia, Brown University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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16 April 2009
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Jacqueline Castledine, Empire State College, SUNY
"Anticolonial Feminism in the Cold War Era"
Comment: Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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23 April 2009
Thursday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Lecture & Booksigning
Joyce Lee Malcolm
Peter's War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
This event is part of the Minute Man Anniversary Lecture Series
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Free and open
to the public
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30 April 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Alison Isenberg, Rutgers University
"Second-hand Cities: Urban Inheritance and the Racial Origins of the American Antique Trade, 1860s-1920s"
Comment: Briann Greenfield, Central Connecticut State University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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6 May 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Megan Kate Nelson, California State University, Fullerton
"Ruins and the Civil War"
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Free and open
to the public
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7 May 2009
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
"An Empire of Peace: The International Origins of the American Revolution"
Comment: Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University
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Seminars are free and open to the public; there is a subscription for advance copies of the seminar papers
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12 May 2009
Tuesday, 6:00 PM
Lecture
Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere House
"Myth and Memory: The Legacy of Paul Revere"
Co-sponsored by The Concord Free Public Library and Minute Man National Historical Park. This event is part of the Minute Man Anniversary Lecture Series.
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Lecture
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Free and open
to the public
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13 May 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Rachel Cope, Syracuse University
"A New Course of Life was Begun": The Religious Impact of Revivalism on Nineteenth-Century Women
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Free and open
to the public
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20 May 2009
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Jennifer Egloff, New York University
"Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America"
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Free and open
to the public
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8 June 2009
Monday, 9:00 PM
- 3:30 PM
Conference
Energy and Social Change: A Conference for Massachusetts History Organizations
Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program in Public History, and the Massachusetts Historical Society
This event will take place at the Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.
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Registration required
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10 June 2009
Wednesday, 7:30 PM
Lecture
David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Lecture in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Minute Man National Park
Co-sponsored by The Concord Free Public Library and Minute Man National Historical Park. This event is part of the Minute Man Anniversary Lecture Series.
This event will take place at the Minute Man National Historical Park. (Precise location within the park to be announced soon.)
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Free and open
to the public
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