A Look Ahead: November and 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.

November

Monday, November 1, at 5:30 PM: Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter with Gordon Rhea in conversation with Kevin Levin.

Thursday, November 4, at 5:15 PM: Environmental History Seminar, The “Science” of Dry-Farming: The Emergence of a Concept in Global Perspective with Elizabeth Williams, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Saturday, November 6, at 2:00 PM: Looking Back at the Centennial & the Sesquicentennial: How Far Has Research on the 15th and 19th Amendments Come? with Alison M. Parker, University of Delaware; Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University; and moderated by Alex Keyssar, Harvard University.

Tuesday, November 9, at 5:15 PM: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, Conversion in Confinement with Justin Clark, Nanyang Technological University; Daniel Bottino, Rutgers University; Hanna Peterson, Independent Scholar; and comment by Douglas Winiarski, University of Richmond.

Wednesday, November 10, at 5:30 PM: Wilson & Lodge with Patricia O’Toole.

Wednesday, November 17, at 5:30 PM: Introducing The Object of History with Peter Drummey, MHS; Anne Bentley, MHS; Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, MHS; and Katy Morris, MHS.

Thursday, November 18, at 6:00 PM: Literary Distinction in Historical Writing 2021: An Evening with the Society of American Historians Prize Winners with Afia Atakora, Novelist; Brianna Nofil, College of William & Mary; Christopher Tomlins, Berkeley Law; and moderated by Megan Marshall, Emerson College, SAH past president.

Tuesday, November 23, at 5:30 PM: I Believe I’ll Go Back Home: Roots & Revival in New England Folk Music with Thomas Curren.

Tuesday, November 30, at 5:15 PM: Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar, The Reinvention of Tradition: Conformist Nationalism in the United States, 1923–1931 with Kelly Lyons, Boston College; and comment by Jonathan Hassen, Harvard University.

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.

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.

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