December Wednesday, December 1, at 5:30 PM: Four Centuries of Christmas in New England with Ken Turino, Historic New England. Thursday, December 2, at 5:15 PM: African American History Seminar, “Challenge or Be Challenged”: the Par-Links Black Women’s Golf Club in East Bay, CA with Paula C. Austin, Boston University; and comment by Louis Moore, Grand Valley State University. Monday, December 6, at 5:30 PM: Urban Archipelago: Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands with Pavla Šimková. Tuesday, December 7, at 5:15 PM: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, Crisis: 1774–1775 with Sarah Beth Gable, Brandeis University; and comment by Donald Johnson, North Dakota State University. Tuesday, December 7, at 6:00 PM: Writing History with H. W. Brands, in discussion with Catherine Allgor, MHS, and Ryan J. Woods, American Ancestors/NEHGS. Wednesday, December 8, at 5:30 PM: Grand Duke Alexis in Boston with Lee Farrow, Auburn University. Thursday, December 9, at 5:15 PM: Digital History Seminar, Digitizing Early Massachusetts Court Records with Sally Hadden, University of Western Michigan. Monday, December 13, at 5:30 PM: The Transcendentalists and Their World with Robert Gross, University of Connecticut. Tuesday, December 14, at 5:15 PM: History of Women, Gender & Sexuality Seminar, “The Kind of Death, Natural or Violent”: Fetal Death & the Male Midwife in 19th-Century Boston with Hannah Smith, University of Minnesota; and comment by Nora Doyle, Salem College. Thursday, December 16, at 5:15 PM: Environmental History Seminar, Local Food Before Locavores: Growing Vegetables in the Boston Market Garden District, 1870–1930 with Sally McMurry, Pennsylvania State University; and comment by Andrew Robichaud, Boston University.
A LOOK AHEAD DECEMBER 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.
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