November Programs at a Glance

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1MONDAY | 5:30 | VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter Gordon Rhea in conversation with Kevin Levin

4THURSDAY | 5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR

The “Science” of Dry-Farming: The Emergence of a Concept in Global Perspective Elizabeth Williams, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Comment by Jeremy Vetter, University of Arizona

6SATURDAY | 2:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT Looking Back at the Sesquicentennial and the Centennial: How Far Has Research on the 15th and 19th Amendments Come? Alison M. Parker, University of Delaware; Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University

Comment by Alex Keyssar, Harvard University

9TUESDAY | 5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR Conversion in Confinement Justin Clark, Nanyang Technological University; Daniel Bottino, Rutgers University; and Hannah Peterson, Independent Scholar

Douglas Winiarski, University of Richmond

10 WEDNESDAY | 530 | HYBRID PROGRAM Wilson and Lodge: One World, Two Visions, Unending Reverberations Patricia O’Toole, Columbia University

16 TUESDAY | 5:30 | VIRTUAL CONVERSATION Introducing The Object of History Peter Drummey, Anne Bentley, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, and Katy Morris

18 THURSDAY | 6:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT Literary Distinction in Historical Writing 2021: An Evening with the Society of American Historians Prize Winners Afia Atakora, Novelist; Brianna Nofil, College of William & Mary; and Christopher Tomlins, Berkeley Law

Moderated by Megan Marshall, Emerson College, SAH past president

23 TUESDAY | 5:30 | HYBRID PROGRAM I Believe I’ll Go Back Home: Roots and Revival in New England Folk Music Thomas Curren

30 TUESDAY | 5:15 | HYBRID SEMINAR The Reinvention of Tradition: Conformist Nationalism in the United States, 1923–1931 Kelly Lyons, Boston College

Comment by Jonathan Hansen, Harvard University

28 THURSDAY | 5:15 | VIRTUAL SEMINAR “The Virus of Slavery and Injustice”: Analogy and Disabled Life in African American Writings, 1856–1892 Vivian Delchamps, University of California, Los Angeles

Comment by Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University

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Join hosts Katy Morris and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai as they chat with staff and outside scholars and interact with artifacts from the MHS collection to gain a richer understanding of the history behind them.

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