By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Wednesday, 14 July for a brown-bag lunch talk with current research fellow Neil Dugre of Northwestern University. Neil will speak on his current research project, “Creative Union: Civic Innovation in Seventeenth-Century New England.” The event will begin at 12 noon. More info here.
By Elaine Grublin
Here’s what’s on the calendar for this week:
On Wednesday, 23 June, there will be a brown-bag lunch with Derek Attig from the University of Illinois. Derek will be sharing his work on “Race and Region in Twentieth-Century Bookmobility.” The event will begin at 12 noon. This event is free and open to the public. More information is available here.
By Jeremy Dibbell
Here’s what’s on the calendar for this week:
Today, Monday, 14 June, there will be a brown-bag lunch with Lori Veilleux of Brown University. This event will begin at 12 noon. Lori will speak on “Providence and Prevention: Boston in the 1832 Cholera Epidemic.”
On Tuesday, 15 June, join us at 12 noon for a special lunchtime talk by historian Thomas Fleming to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his classic book Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill.
And on Friday, 18 June, we’ll host a brown-bag lunch at 12 noon with Matthew Hudock of the University of Delaware. Matthew will speak on “African Americans in the Creation of Liberia College.” More info here.
By Jeremy Dibbell
We hope you’ll join us at 1154 Boylston for this week’s public programs:
On Tuesday, 8 June, Leo Damrosch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, will speak on his new book Tocqueville’s Discovery of America, recently published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the talk will begin at 6 p.m. Reservations for this event are requested; please go here for more information and to sign up.
On Wednesday, 9 June, we’ll have a brown-bag lunch with Jim Downs of Connecticut College. His talk is titled “Sick from Freedom: The Unintended Consequences of the Civil War.” The discussion will begin at 12 noon. More info here.
And on Friday, 11 June, also beginning at noon, there will be another brown-bag lunch, this one with Jan Cigliano of Brown University. Jan will speak on “John Hay, Genius of Diplomacy (1838-1905).”
By Jeremy Dibbell
Just one event on the calendar this week, but we hope you’ll join us at 12 noon on Wednesday, 2 June for a brown-bag lunch with Erik Chaput of Syracuse University. Erik will speak on “Thomas Wilson Dorr and the Rhode Island Question.” The effects of the 1842 Dorr Rebellion – a movement in Rhode Island to expand suffrage beyond landowners that culminated in a People’s Convention, armed confrontation, and the extension of voting rights – reverberated throughout the North. In Massachusetts, the Rebellion influenced the results of the 1842 gubernatorial race between Democrat Marcus Morton and Whig John Davis.
By Jeremy Dibbell
Two brown-bag lunches this week: we hope you’ll join us! On Wednesday, 26 May, Richard Rath of the University of Hawaii at Manoa will speak on “Media and the Senses in the New England Psalm Controversy, 1721-1724.” More info here.
And on Friday, 28 May, Alea Henle of the University of Connecticut will speak on “Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies and Editors in the Early Republic.” More info here.
Both events will begin at 12 noon.
By Jeremy Dibbell
The annual meeting of the Historical Society will be held this Wednesday, 19 May, beginning at 5 p.m. The business meeting will be followed by a program honoring the memory of MHS Trustee and Fellow William L. Saltonstall. Reservations are required; please go here for more info.
Please note: to allow for setup, the reading room will close at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
By Jeremy Dibbell
Here’s what’s on our calendar for this week:
On Wednesday, 12 May, we’ll have a brown-bag lunch at 12 noon with Justin Pope of The George Washington University. Justin will speak on “Whispers and Waves: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742.”
And on Friday and Saturday, 14-15 May, we’re hosting a two-part series on education in Boston with Alex Goldfeld. On Friday, we’ll have a brown-bag lunch at 12 noon, “The Eliot School and the Catholic Exodus of 1859.” And on Saturday, join Mr. Goldfeld for a customized walking tour of Boston’s Black Heritage Trail, “The African School and the Fight for Equal School Rights.”
Reservations for the Saturday event are required. Please call (617) 646-0519 to register, and for information on meeting place and time.
By Jeremy Dibbell
We’ve got a very full calendar of events for the next few weeks. Here’s what’s going on through 7 May:
On Thursday, 22 April, former long-term research fellow April Haynes will speak on “Making ‘False Delicacy’ True: The Passions of Female Moral Reformers, 1835-1845.” This seminar, part of the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender, will be held at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard, beginning at 5:15 p.m. Please read the Seminars @ MHS blog post for more information on attending seminars, including how to make reservations and receive the papers in advance.
At 2 p.m. on Friday, 23 April, Leslie Wilson (Curator of Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library) will give a gallery talk here at MHS to complement the ongoing exhibition: “No Worthless Books: Elizabeth Peabody’s Foreign Library and Bookstore, 1840-1852.” More information here.
We’re happy to present the First Annual Jefferson Lecture on Wednesday, 28 April. Douglas L. Wilson will speak on “Jefferson’s ‘Notes on the State of Virginia’ and Lincoln’s ‘Discoveries and Inventions.'” Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., with the lecture to begin at 6 p.m. Reservations for this event are required – you can sign up here.
On Thursday, 29 April, the Boston Immigration and Urban History seminar series continues with a 5:15 p.m. talk by Gunther Peck of Duke University, “Trafficking in Race: Locating the Origins of White Slavery, 1660-1815.” Claire Potter of Wesleyan University will give the comment. Please read the Seminars @ MHS blog post for more information on attending seminars, including how to make reservations and receive the papers in advance.
MHS Members and Fellows are invited to participate in a special tour of Mt. Auburn Cemetery on Sunday, 2 May, “Mount Auburn & the MHS: Intertwining Paths.” More information here, and registration is required for this event.
On Monday, 3 May, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas will be here for a brown-bag lunch event relating to his new book The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898. This event will begin at 12 noon, and reservations are requested. You can sign up here.
On Wednesday, 5 May, we’ll have another brown-bag lunch presentation by Danielle Boulay of Simmons College. Danielle will speak on “Portraits of Courage?: An Examination of the Civil War Carte de Visite Album of Charles P. Bowditch.” This event will begin at 12 noon.
Later on Wednesday, 5 May, there will be a panel discussion on the recent MHS publication Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). Co-editor Anthony Penna will moderate the discussion. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., with the panel convening at 6 p.m. Reservations are requested for this event; you can sign up here.
And last but certainly not least, on Thursday, 6 May the Boston Early American History seminar series continues, with Katherine A. Grandjean of Wellesley College presenting a talk, “Canoes, Cartpathsm and Colonization: The Evolution of Travel in Early New England, 1635-75.” Cynthia Van Zandt of the University of New Hampshire will deliver a comment. Please read the Seminars @ MHS blog post for more information on attending seminars, including how to make reservations and receive the papers in advance. The seminar will begin at 5:15 p.m.
By Jeremy Dibbell
Just one public event this week:
On Tuesday, 13 April, the Boston Environmental History Seminar series continues with a 5:15 p.m. talk by Anya Zilberstein of Concordia University, “Cold Comfort: The Benefits of Climate Change in Early Northern America.” Brian Donahue of Brandeis University will give the comment. Please read the Seminars @ MHS blog post for more information on attending seminars, including how to make reservations and receive the papers in advance.