A Look Ahead: January and February Programs

Take a look at our upcoming slate of online author talks, panel discussions, workshops, seminars, and brown-bag lunch programs. Please visit www.masshist.org/events for updates and to register.

January

Tuesday, January 11, at 5:15 PM: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, Four Seceding from the Sachemship: Coercion, Ethnology, and Colonial Failure in Early Historic New England, with Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich, The New American Antiquarian, and comment by Linford Fisher, Brown University.

Wednesday, January 12, at 5:30 PM: Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, with Reed Gochberg, Harvard University, and moderated by Katy Morris, Assistant Director of Reasearch and Executive Producer, MHS.

Thursday, January 13, at 6:00 PM: Film Club: Glory, with Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Director of Research, MHS, and Kevin Levin.

Tuesday, January 18, at 5:15 PM: The History of Women, Gender & Sexuality Seminar, The Emergence of the Marriage Market, with Lindsay Keiter, Pennsylvania State University–Altoona, comment by Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of California–Davis.

Wednesday, January 19, at 5:30 PM: Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures, with Tegan Kehoe, Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation at MGH.

Tuesday, January 25, at 5:15 PM: Environmental History Seminar, Earthquakes in New England, 1600–1800: Extraordinary Natural Events and Timekeeping Practices in Early America with Katrin Kleeman, German Maritime Museum–Leibniz Institute for Maritime History, comment by Lukas Rieppel, Brown University.

Wednesday, January 26, at 5:30 PM: Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston, with Seth Bruggeman, Temple University, joined by other experts TBA.

Thursday, January 27, at 5:15 PM: African American History Seminar, In the Shadow of World War: Revisiting W. E. B. Dubois’s Black Reconstruction, with Chad Williams, Brandeis University, and comment by Adriane Letz-Smith, Duke University.

February

Tuesday, February 1, at 5:15 PM: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, The American Funding, with Katie Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ann Daly, Mississippi State University; comment by Simon Middleton, The College of William & Mary.

Monday, February 7, at 5:30 PM: Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize Ceremony, with Abram Van Engen, Washington State University–St. Louis, and Adrian Weimer, Providence College.

Tuesday, February 8, at 5:30: Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father, with Nancy Stewart.

Wednesday, February 9, at 5:30 PM: Challenging Assumptions in Telling Underrepresented History, with Cynthia Cowan, Historic Newton; Stacen Goldman, Framingham History Center; Barbara Brown, Hidden Brookline, and Kyera Singleton, Royall House & Slave Quarters.

Thursday, February 10, at 6:00 PM: Film Club: Amistad, with Sara Martin, current Editor In Chief of the Adams Papers, MHS; and Jim Taylor, former Editor In Chief of the Adams Papers, MHS.

Thursday, February 17, at 5:30 PM: “’Twas Not Long Since I Left My Native Shore”: Phillis Wheatley’s Celestial Cartography, with William Decker, Oklahoma State University.

Tuesday, February 22, at 5:15 PM: Dina G. Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar, Back on the Clock: Labor Control in the Cold War Military’s New Workforce, with A. Junn Murphy, Brandeis University, and comment TBA.

Wednesday, February 23, at 5:30 PM: The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice, with Jan Brogan.

Thursday, February 24, at 5:15 PM: New England Biography Series, Talking Headstones: What Biographers Learn from Visiting Their Subject’s Graves, with Julie Dubrow, Tufts University; Natalie Dykstra, Hope College; and Megan Marshall, Emerson College.

Monday, February 28, at 5:30 PM: The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty, with Neal Thompson.

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