December Programs at a Glance

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1WEDNESDAY | 5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM

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

2THURSDAY | 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

6MONDAY | 5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands Pavla Šimková, Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität

7TUESDAY | 5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR Crisis: 1774–1775 Sarah Beth Gable, Brandeis University

Comment by Donald Johnson, North Dakota University

7TUESDAY | 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.

8WEDNESDAY | 5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM Grand Duke Alexis in Boston Lee Farrow, Auburn University

9THURSDAY | 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

13 MONDAY | 5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM The Transcendentalists and Their World Robert Gross, University of Connecticut, in conversation with Catherine Allgor, MHS

14 TUESDAY | 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

16 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

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