MHS Calendar of Events - December 2021

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WEDNESDAY |

5:30 |

HYBRID PROGRAM

Four Centuries of Christmas in New England Ken Turino, Historic New England

2

THURSDAY |

5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR

“Challenge or Be Challenged”: The ParLinks Black Women’s Golf Club in East Bay, CA Paula C. Austin, Boston University; and Louis Moore, Grand Valley State University

6

MONDAY |

5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM

Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands Pavla Šimková, Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität

7

TUESDAY |

5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR

Crisis: 1774–1775 Sarah Beth Gable, Brandeis University Comment by Donald Johnson, North Dakota University

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TUESDAY |

6:00 | VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Writing History with H. W. Brands: Book Talk and Extended Q&A Moderated by Ryan Woods, American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Catherine Allgor, MHS Tickets are $50 and include the Zoom link and a personalized copy of Our First Civil War.

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WEDNESDAY |

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THURSDAY |

5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM

Grand Duke Alexis in Boston Lee Farrow, Auburn University

6:00 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR

Digitizing Early Massachusetts Court Records Sally Hadden, University of Western Michigan Comment by Jessica Otis, George Mason University; and Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota

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MONDAY |

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TUESDAY |

5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM

The Transcendentalists and Their World Robert Gross, University of Connecticut, in conversation with Catherine Allgor, MHS

5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR

“The Kind of Death, Natural or Violent”: Fetal Death and the Male Midwife in Nineteenth-Century Boston Hanna Smith, University of Minnesota Comment by Nora Doyle, Salem College

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THURSDAY |

5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR

Local Food Before Locavores: Growing Vegetables in the Boston Market Garden District, 1870–1930 Sally McMurry, Pennsylvania State University Comment by Andrew Robichaud, Boston University

DECEMBER PROGRAMS AT A GLANCE

December

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