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Modern American Society and Culture Seminar

Lost Cities of Chicago's South Side

26Sep 5:15PM 2017

Any city is composed of many layers, including superseded and could-have-been versions of itself: lost cities. This essay is drawn from Rotella’s current book ...
Brown Bag

The Constitution of Disability in the Early United States

27Sep 12:00PM 2017

Disability emerged in the Early Republic as a meaningful bureaucratic, legal, institutional, and cultural category. It was rooted in ideas about work, social worth, and ...
Author Talk

Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas

27Sep 6:00PM 2017
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.

  This biography, based on original letters and diaries, illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. ...
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Who is J. Gibbs?

The Massachusetts Historical Society recently received a donation of William Gray Brooks family papers, primarily correspondence on genealogical subjects. It’s a terrific collection of letters ...

John Quincy Adams and the Education of a “Warrior Patriot”

When President John Quincy Adams delivered his first annual message to Congress on December 6, 1825, he noted that “the want of a naval school of instruction, corresponding with the Military ...

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