A Look Ahead: February and March 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.

February

Tuesday, February 1, at 5:15 PM: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, The American Funding, with Katie Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ann Daly, Mississippi State University; comment by Simon Middleton, The College of William & Mary.

Monday, February 7, at 5:30 PM: Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize Ceremony, with Abram Van Engen, Washington State University—St. Louis, and Adrian Weimer, Providence College.

Tuesday, February 8, at 5:30: Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father, with Nancy Stewart.

Wednesday, February 9, at 5:30 PM: Challenging Assumptions in Telling Underrepresented History, with Cynthia Cowan, Historic Newton; Stacen Goldman, Framingham History Center; Barbara Brown, Hidden Brookline; and Kyera Singleton, Royall House & Slave Quarters.

Thursday, February 10, at 6:00 PM: Film Club: Amistad, with Sara Martin, current Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers, MHS; and Jim Taylor, former Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers, MHS.

Thursday, February 17, at 5:30 PM: “’Twas Not Long Since I Left My Native Shore”: Phillis Wheatley’s Celestial Cartography, with William Decker, Oklahoma State University.

Tuesday, February 22, at 5:15 PM: Dina G. Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar, Back on the Clock: Labor Control in the Cold War Military’s New Workforce, with A. Junn Murphy, Brandeis University, and comment TBA.

Wednesday, February 23, at 5:30 PM: The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice, with Jan Brogan.

Thursday, February 24, at 5:15 PM: New England Biography Series, Talking Headstones: What Biographers Learn from Visiting Their Subject’s Graves, with Julie Dubrow, Tufts University; Natalie Dykstra, Hope College; and Megan Marshall, Emerson College.

Monday, February 28, at 5:30 PM: The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty, with Neal Thompson.

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 TBA.

Tuesday, March 8, at 5:15 PM: Environtmental History Seminar, Targeting Reform: Cercla, Industri-Plex, and Pollution Remediation in the United States, with Johnathan Williams, Boston University, and comment TBA.

Wednesday, March 9, at 5:30 PM: Lincoln and 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: Front Line 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, 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.

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 TBA.

Thursday, March 24, at 6:00 PM: George Washington’s Hair, with Keith Beutler.

Tuesday, March 29, at 5:15 PM: Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar, Medical Racism and 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 5:30 PM: Reflecting on Repercussions of Covid-19: Policy akers and 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 Disease department at Massachusetts General Hospital, and lead doctor on Governor Charlie Baker’s school reopening panel.

Date and time TBA: Film Club: Little Women, with Jan Turnquist, Executive Director of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.

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