A Look Ahead: May and June Programs

Take a look at our upcoming slate of author talks, panel discussions, workshops, seminars, and brown-bag lunch programs. Please visit www.masshist.org/events for updates and to register; once registered, your e-mail before attending the program.

May

Monday, May 2, at 6:00 PM: Sponsor Reception at 5:30 PM, Making History Gala, with Heather Cox Richardson and GBH’s Jared Bowen.

Tuesday, May 3, at 5:15 PM: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, Honoring Daniel K. Richter: McNeil Center Alumni Discuss Their Research & Experiences, with William Huntting Howell, Boston University; Elizabeth N. Ellis, New York University; Chris Parsons, Boston University; Alicia DeMaio, Horace Mann School; Sari Altschuler, Boston University; Joseph Rezek, Boston University.

Wednesday, May 4, at 6:00 PM: Filming First Ladies, with Aaron Cooley and Mark Farkas, in conversaton with Catherine Allgor, MHS.

Thursday, May 5, at 5:30 PM: Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize Ceremony, with Abram Van Engen, Washington University—St. Louis, and Adrian Weimer, Providence College.

Monday, May 9, at 5:30 PM: Boston at 200: Where We Were, Where We Are & Where We’re Going, with Robert Allison, Suffolk University; Karilyn Crockett, MIT; Kerri Greenidge, Tufts University; Peter Drummey, MHS; and Luc Schuster, Boston Indicators; with remarks by Councilor Ed Flynn, District 2.

Thursday, May 12, at 5:15 PM: Dina G. 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 Hansen, Harvard University.

Monday through Friday, May 16–21: Member’s Week.

Thursday, May 19, at 6:00 PM: Writing on Juneteenth, with Annette Gordon Reed, in conversation with Catherine Allgor.

Tuesday, May 24, at 6:00 PM: Film Club: The Friends of Eddie Coyle, with Ty Burr, Ty Burr’s Watchlist.

Thursday, May 26, at 6:00 PM: Confronting Racial Injustice: Rising Asian American Voices, with Paul Lee, former partner at Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar; Phil Nash, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Representative Tram Nguyen, 18th Essex District; and moderated by Margaret Woo, Northeastern University School of Law. Pre-recorded remarks by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

Wednesday, June 1, at 6:00 PM: Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, with Wendy Rouse, San Jose State University.

Monday, June 6, at 6:00 PM: Hidden in Plain Sight: Remembering Queer Nighlife, with Danny Harris, Elite’s Gay Club; Jackson Davidow, Tufts University; Georden West, Emerson College; and Indee Mitchell, artist and activist.

Saturday, June 11, at 2:00 PM: Old Institutions, New Things, with Anthea Hartig, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History; Louise Mirrer, New York Historical Society; and Catherine Allgor, MHS.

Monday, June 13, at 6:00 PM: Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing & the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States, with Laura F. Edwards, Princeton University.

Tuesday, June 14, at 6:00 PM: The Imposter’s War: The Press, Propaganda, & the Newsman Who Battled for the Minds of America, with Mark Arsenault, The Boston Globe.

Monday, June 20, at 6:00 PM: Reflecting on the Work of Robert Gross, with Robert Gross, University of Connecticut; John Brooke, Ohio State University; David Waldstreicher, City University of New York; and Christine Heyrman, University of Delaware.

Wednesday, June 22, at 6:00 PM: Film Club: The Thomas Crowne Affair, with Peter Drummey, MHS.

Wednesday, June 29, at 6:00 PM: Hidden in Plain Sight: Documenting Queer Stories in Archives, with Tripp Evans, Wheaton College; Heather White, Harvard Divinity School; and Jen Manion, Amherst College.

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