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22 November 2008
Saturday, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Conversations with Authors
Massachusetts History Book Fair


Join us on Saturday, November 22, as we welcome the following authors of history-based books to the Massachusetts Historical Society:

10:00 Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend

11:00 Philip McFarland, Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe

12:00 Heather Cox Richardson, West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of American After the Civil War

1:00 Alan Rogers, Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts

2:00 Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

3:00 Michael Hoberman, How Strange it Seems: The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England

4:00 Margaret Hogan and C. James Taylor, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams


Books by all authors will be available for purchase at the event.



Free and open to the public


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