
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

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
This paper discusses how Black families converted upper Roxbury’s single-family housing stock into…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
During the tumultuous first decades of the twentieth century tens of thousands of…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
This paper argues that the Declaration of Independence was not antimonarchist in principle. The…

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Diana W. Anselmo’s work explores the cultural and political reach of “bad feelings” beyond the strictly psychoanalytic. She turns attention to the…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
In American cities throughout the North and South, discriminatory discipline emerged or increased…

This is an online event.
Biographers often have to "fill in the blanks" of their subjects' lives. Telling the stories of women is sometimes even more complicated because…