A Look Ahead: March and April 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.

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

Massachusetts General Hospital, advisor to Governor Charlie Baker, and leader of the Vaccine Advisory Board; and Dr. Sandra Bliss Nelson, doctor in the Infectious Diseases Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, and lead doctor on Governor Charlie Baker’s school reopening panel.

April

Wednesday, April 6, at 6:00 PM: Female Genius: Eliza Harriot & George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution, with Mary Bilder, Boston College Law School.

Thursday, April 7, at 5:15 PM: African American History Seminar, Black Abolitionists & the Meaning of Higher Learning, with Michael Jirik, Carleton College, and comment by Steven Wilder, MIT

Tuesday, April 12, at 5:15 PM: Environtmental History Seminar, Pipe Dreams: The Pursuit of Desalination & the Promise of a Water-Abundant Future in the 1950s and 1960s, with Elizabeth Hameeteman, Boston University, and comment by Megan Black, MIT.

Wednesday, April 13, at 6:00 PM: Ill-Fated Frontier: Peril & Possiblities in the Early American West, with Samuel Foreman, MD.

Thursday, April 14, at 5:15 PM: History of Women, Gender & Sexuality Seminar, Queer Abby: Newspaper Advice Columnists as Allies for Gays and Lesbians, 1960–1980, with David Ferrara, University of Alabama, and comment by Lauren Gutterman, University of Texas at Austin.

Wednesday, April 20, at 6:00 PM: 54th Unmarked Dead in Olustee, Florida, with Barbara Gannon, University of Central Florida.

Thursday, April 21, at 6:00 PM: Narrative History, with John Demos in conversation with Catherine Allgor, MHS.

Monday, April 25, at 6:00 PM: Benjamin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife & Blueprint for American Prosperity, with Michael Myer.

Tuesday, April 26, at 5:15 PM: Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar, A Decent Home: The 1950s Suburban Boom in Long Island, with Michael Glass, Boston College, and comment by Rebecca K. Marchiel, University of Mississippi.

Wednesday, April 27, at 6:00 PM: Film Club: The Bostonians, with Jim Vrabel and Susan Wilson.

Thursday, April 28, at 5:15 PM: Digital History Seminar, The Dartmouth Digital History Initiative: Digital Humanities, Data Visualization & Oral History Archives, with Edward Miller & Bryan Winston, Dartmouth College, and comment by Janneken Smucker, West Chester University.

Thursday, April 28, at 6:00 PM: Confronting Racial Injustice: Asian Americans, moderated by Margaret Woo, Northeastern University School of Law, other speakers TBA.

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