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1 January 2010 - 31 December 2010
Saturday Tours
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Free and open
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2 August 2010 - 2 October 2010
Exhibition
Precious Metals: From Au to Zn
The exhibition is open Monday to Saturday from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
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Free and open
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8 September 2010
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Sarah Keyes, University of Southern California
Beyond the Plains: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900
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Free and open
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16 September 2010
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Francis J. Bremer, Millersville University
Not Quite So Visible Saints: Reexamining Church Membership in Early New England
Evan Haefeli, Columbia 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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17 September 2010
Friday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Sara Damiano, Johns Hopkins University
Financial Credit and Professional Credibility: Lawyers and Laypeople in Eighteenth-Century New England Ports
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Free and open
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22 September 2010
Wednesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Annie Rudd, Columbia University
Performing Familial Ties: A History of Posing for the Family Portrait Photograph
POSTPONED-TO BE RESCHEDULED
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Free and open
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22 September 2010
Wednesday, 5:30 PM
- 7:30 PM
Special Event
Longfellow House: Behind the Scenes Tour
Special Event for Fellows and Members; Location: Longfellow House
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Registration Required
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29 September 2010
Wednesday, 6:00 PM
Author Talk
Eric Jay Dolin
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
This event is part of the "On the Move" lecture series.
5:30 Reception; 6:00 Lecture
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Registration Required
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30 September 2010
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
Comment: Mary Lui, Yale 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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5 October 2010
Tuesday
Brown-Bag
Beth Luey, Massachusetts Historical Society
Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge
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Free and open
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7 October 2010
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University, and Grey Osterud
A Stake in the Land: Theorizing Gender and Land Ownership
Comment: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Location: Schlesinger Library
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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 October 2010
Monday, 11:00 AM
- 2:00 PM
Open House
Presented in conjunction with Opening Our Doors Day presented by the Fenway Alliance
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Free and open
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12 October 2010
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
A History of Denial: Romanticization and Regulation in the New England Fisheries, 1893-1918
Comment: Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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 October 2010
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Richard Alan Ryerson
The Discovery of the Republic, 1768-1772
Comment: Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut
This presentation is chapter two of Dr. Ryerson's current book project, entitled "John Adams' Republic."
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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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15 October 2010
Friday, 12:00 PM
Brown-Bag
Sheldon S. Cohen, Loyola, emeritus
Commodore Whipple of the Continental Navy
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Free and open
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20 October 2010
Wednesday, 6:00 PM
- 8:00 PM
Special Event
Daniel R. Coquillette, Boston College Law School
Opening Reception
A special event for Fellows and Members
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Registration Required
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21 October 2010
Thursday, 6:00 PM
Author Talk
Eric Jaffe
The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route that Made America
This event is part of the "On the Move" lecture series.
5:30 Reception; 6:00 Lecture
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Registration Required
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27 October 2010
Wednesday
Author Talk
Pauline Maier, MIT
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
5:30 Reception; 6:00 Lecture
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Registration Required
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28 October 2010
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Michael Ebner, Lake Forest College
Motives, Interests, and Mapmakers: Storylines about the Drawing of Boundaries in Metropolitan America
Comment: Sam Bass Warner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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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1 November 2010
Monday, 6:00 PM
Author Talk
Joseph Ellis, Mount Holyoke College
First Family: Abigail and John Adams
This event is co-sponsored by Brookline Booksmith.
Location: Coolidge Corner Theater, Harvard St., Brookline.
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Registration required
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4 November 2010
Thursday, 6:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
Special Event
National Book Award-winning author and MHS Overseer Nathaniel Philbrick
Cocktails with Clio
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Registration Required
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8 November 2010
Monday
Author Talk
Nick Bunker
The Mayflower Compact: Where It Came From and What It Meant
This event is part of the "On the Move" lecture series.
5:30 Reception 6:00 Lecture
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Free and open
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9 November 2010
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Richard Judd, University of Maine at Orono
Rethinking Environmental History: The View from New England
Comment: Wyatt Oswald, Emerson 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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16 November 2010
Tuesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 AM
Mini-Course
Peter Drummey and Anne Bentley, Library Reader Services, Massachusetts Historical Society
What does Massachusetts have to do with ... THOMAS JEFFERSON?
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18 November 2010
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Yael Schacher, Harvard University
Discrimination, Persecution, and Alien Seamen in U.S. Ports, 1930s to 1960s
Comment: Vivek Bald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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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2 December 2010
Thursday, 6:00 PM
- 8:00 PM
Special Event
Fellows & Members Holiday Party
A special event for MHS Fellows and Members
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Registration required
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7 December 2010
Tuesday, 6:00 PM
Conversation
Rebecca Eaton, WGBH
Creating the Past Through Drama
Facilitated by Steve Marini, Wellesley College. This event is part of the "Creating the Past" Conversation Series.
5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Conversation
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Free and open
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9 December 2010
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Sharon Ann Murphy, Providence College
Banking on the Public's Trust: The Image of Commercial Banks after the Panic of 1819
Comment: Bruce Mann, Harvard Law School
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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 December 2010
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Steve Moga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Flattening the City: Zoning, Topography, and Nature in the American City, 1908-1945
Comment: Karl Haglund, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
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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 December 2010
Tuesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Mini-Course
Jayne Gordon and Kathleen Barker, Education Department, Massachusetts Historical Society
What does Massachusetts have to do with ... THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH?
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Registration required
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16 December 2010
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Molly Geidel, Boston University
Breaking the Bonds? Domesticity, Decolonization, and the Peace Corps Girl in the 1960s
Comment: Alexander Bloom, Wheaton 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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11 January 2011
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Ninian Stein, Wheaton College
City as Change: Design and Science Collaborations for Sustainable Urban Life
Comment: Joan Fitzgerald, 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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18 January 2011
Tuesday, 12:00 PM
- 1:00 PM
Mini-Course
Sara Martin and Jim Taylor, The Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Topic to be announced.
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Registration required
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27 January 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Llana Barber, Boston College
"If we would...leave the city, this would be a ghost town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000
Ramon Borges-Mendez, Clark 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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3 February 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Jason T. Sharples, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Catholic University of America
The Politics of Fear: Slave Conspiracy Panics, Community Mobilization, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Comment: Benjamin Carp, Tufts University
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8 February 2011
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Megan Kate Nelson, Harvard University and Massachusetts Historical Society
"They fluttered like birds in a snare": Battling the Desert in the Confederate Campaign for New Mexico, 1862
Comment: Anthony N. Penna, Northeastern University
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24 February 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How Filipino Veterans Joined the Greatest Generation, 1945-2009
Comment: Margot Canaday, Princeton 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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3 March 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Rachel T. Van, Massachusetts Historical Society
The Woman Pigeon: Sociability, Sexuality, and the Anglo-American Community in Canton and Macao
Comment: Robert P. Forbes, University of Connecticut - Torrington
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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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8 March 2011
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Sarah Phillips, Boston University
The Most Important Election You've Never Heard Of: The Wheat Referendum of 1963
Comment: Rachel Cobb, Suffolk 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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10 March 2011
Thursday, 5:30 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
The Hemings Family in the Nineteenth Century
Comment: Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
Location: Schlesinger Library
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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 March 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Mary Anne A. Trasciatti, Hofstra University
Athens or Anarchy? Soapbox Oratory and the Early Twentieth-Century American City
Comment: Michael Willrich, Brandeis 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 April 2011
Tuesday, 5:15 PM
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University
Industry and Pollution at the Everett, Massachusetts, Site
Comment: Sam Bass Warner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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14 April 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Sarah Pearsall, Oxford Brookes University
"To give up having many wives": The Politics of Polygamy in Colonial North America
Comment: Lisa Wilson, Connecticut College
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21 April 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
Dayo Gore, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Engendering and Internationalizing the Long Black Freedom Struggle
Comment: Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University at Newark
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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 April 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar
Timothy B. Neary, Salve Regina University
A Catholic "League of Nations": Redefining Ethnic and Civic Identity in New Deal Chicago
Comment: Howard P. Chudacoff, Brown University
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5 May 2011
Thursday, 5:15 PM
Boston Early American History Seminar
Owen Stanwood, Boston College
Murder in Hadley: Crime and Community on the New England Frontier
Comment: Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut
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