This Week @ MHS

It has been busy, busy, busy at 1154 Boylston Street this fall.  And this week is no different.  Plan to attend one of this week's events.  And remember to visit the online calendar for additional information.

Monday, 22 October at 6:00 PM, author Missy Wolfe launches her new publication, Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665 with Elizabeth Winthrop: Insubordinate Spirit.  Reservations are requested. To RSVP call 617-646-0560 or register online. 

Tuesday, 23 October at 5:15 PM the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar continues with John Ochsendorf, The Guastavino Project, MIT, presenting Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces.  This event will take place at the Boston Public Library.  In lieu of reading a paper, participants will engage in discussion with the presenter after touring the exhibition “Palaces for the People.”

Please note there will be no building tour on Saturday, 27 October. The exhibition galleries, featuring In Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry and In the Arena: The Presidential Election of 1912 in Massachusetts will be open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. 

This Week @ MHS

The fall season is in full-swing.  We are offering three evening programs, a brown-bag lunch, and a building tour this week. There is a little something for everyone, so plan on stopping in.  Additional details about all events are available through our online calendar.

Monday, 1 October at 6:00 PM, Christian Samito, Boston University School of Law, discusses “The War of 1812 & the Making of Modern America.” This program is presented in partnership with the USS Constitution Museum as part of the War of 1812 Bicentennial Series. There is a pre-event reception at 5:30. Reservations are requested. RSVP by calling 617-646-0560.

Tuesday, 2 October at 5:15 PM, the Boston Early American History Seminar series returns with Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania, presenting “Colonial Proprieties: Atlantic Possession in England’s Restoration Era.” Steven Pincus, Yale University, will provide the comment. Advance copies of seminar papers are available to series subscribers. RSVPs are required, and can be made by contacting Kate Viens via email or at 617-646-0568.

Wednesday, 3 October at 12:00 PM, bring your lunch and enjoy the conversation as Lauri Coleman, College of William and Mary, presents “’Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise’: Popular Almanacs and Weather Cosmology in Mid-eighteenth Century America” at a brown-bag lunch program.

Thursday, 4 October at 5:30 PM, the New England Biography Seminar series kicks off with Judith Tick, Northeastern University; Jan Swafford, The Boston Conservatory; and Tim Riley, Emerson College, sharing their insights on “Symphony and Song: Writing Lives in Music” Megan Marshall, Emerson College, will moderate the discussion. RSVPs are required, and can be made by contacting Kate Viens via email or at 617-646-0568.

Saturday, 6 October at 10:00 AM, all are welcome to explore the “History and Collections of the MHS” during our 90-minute guided tour. 

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If you are planning ahead, NEXT WEEK @ MHS, on Monday, 8 October, we are participating in the Fenway Alliance’s annual Opening our Doors event. The MHS galleries will be open from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.  The research library will be closed. Stay tuned for the next installment of This Week @ MHS (or consult the online calendar) for details about additional events next week. 

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On Tuesday, September 18, the fall seminar season kicks off with the first Immigration and Urban History Seminar. Join Brooke L. Blower, Boston University, as she explores why Allied strategists allowed Spaniards Marcelino Garcia and Manuel Diaz, two ardent Franco supporters and Nazi sympathizers, to remain in play for the duration of World War II. RSVPs are required and advance copies of Blower's paper "Devil’s Bargain: New York City’s Premier Spanish Shipping Agents and Allied Strategy during World War II" are available to series subscribers. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University, will give the comment.  

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Join us at noon on Wednesday, 15 August, for a brown-bag lunch "Cotton Mather's use of Jacques Basnage's History of the Jews in the Biblia Americana," presented by Rick Kennedy of Point Loma Nazarene University. Kennedy will present his thoughts on Basnage's influence on Mather as a historian and then will field questions from the audience.