Seminars
The MHS organizes seven seminar series that operate from September to May. These sessions bring together a diverse group of scholars and interested members of the public to workshop a pre-circulated paper. After brief remarks from the author and an assigned commentator, the discussion is opened to the floor. All are encouraged to ask questions, provide feedback on the circulated essay, and discuss the topic at hand. Our sessions are free and open to everyone. Register here to attend and receive the session papers.
Upcoming Events
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Venture Smith was born in West Africa, sold as a young boy into slavery in New England, and survived to tell his extraordinary story in a …
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El Teatro Campesino created dramatic performances engaging their fellow farmworkers in fields and orchards, on picket lines and…
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This essay examines how U.S. soldiers, believing that the U.S. government violated its promise of rapid demobilization, rose up to protest the…
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
Roy’s paper introduces his forthcoming book American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of…
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
In this paper, Dan Joslyn argues that in the 1830s, Garrisonian abolitionists and Finneyite…
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
Back in 2020 at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, when communal spaces and community itself…
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Southern secession was a disaster for American nationalists with a proslavery vision of the Union’s past and future. Few were as virulent as John…
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Creating data models that can take advantage of the affordances of the web of data is a…
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
For seventeenth-century Susquehannock and Piscataway people, small rivers, creeks…
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This paper tells the story of childhood friends—Mollie Wilson, Lillian Igasaki, and Sandie Saito—who grew up in the multiracial neighborhood of…
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
This paper uncovers a multi-generational history of domestic workers’ fight for dignity and economic…
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
This paper explores the lives of working actresses and theatre managers in Boston through the early…