MHS Calendar of Events - February 2022

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.

March Thursday, March 3, at 5:15 PM: African American History Seminar, Let Me Be Somebody: Fabian Bridges & Quarantine Proposals During the HIV & AIDS Crisis in America, with Andrew Pope, Harvard University, and comment by Wesley Phelps, University of North Texas.

Tuesday, March 8, at 5:15 PM: Environtmental History Seminar, Targeting Reform: CERCLA, Industri-Plex & Pollution Remediation in the United States, with Johnathan Williams, Boston University, and comment by Elizabeth Grennan Browning, Indiana University.

Wednesday, March 9, at 6:00 PM: Ways & Means: Lincoln & His Cabinet on the Financing of the Civil War, with Roger Lowenstein.

Thursday, March 10, at 6:00 PM: Reflecting on Repercussions of COVID-19: Frontline Workers, with Dr. John Santiago, Boston Medical Center ER Physician and State Representative; Jasmine Laietmark, Funeral Director at Stanetsky Memorial Chapels; and Emily Donahue, K-12 Educator.

Tuesday, March 15, at 5:15 PM: History of Women, Gender & Sexuality Seminar, The Translations of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Comparing Feminist Self-Help Handbooks in the 1970s West Germany and the United States, with Claudia Roesch, German Historical Institute, and comment by Jennifer Nelson, University of Redlands.

Wednesday, March 16, at 6:00 PM: Film Club: Little Women, with Jan Turnquist, Executive Director of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, and Heather Rockwood, MHS. Thursday, March 21, at 6:00 PM: George Washington’s Hair, with Keith Beutler.

Tuesday, March 22, at 5:15 PM: Digital History Seminar, Playing in Peoria: Patterns of Mass Culture in Progressive America, with Samuel Backer, Johns Hopkins University, and comment by Derek Miller, Harvard University.

Thursday, March 24, at 6:00 PM: Reflecting on Repercussions of COVID-19: Cultural Institutions, with Vikki Spruill, CEO of the New England Aquarium, Catherine Allgor, MHS President, and Matthew Teitelbaum, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Tuesday, March 29, at 5:15 PM: Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar, Medical Racism & Political Death: The Case of Juliette Derricotte, with Chana Lee, Harvard University, and comment by Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University WSRC Scholar.

Wednesday, March 30, at 6:00 PM: Reflecting on Repercussions of COVID-19: Policy Makers & Policy Advisors, with Marylou Sudders, Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services; Dr. Paul Biddinger, Director of the Center for Disaster Medicine at 14