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2019 Jan 08

MHS: The Consecration of Samuel Seabury and the Crisis of Atlantic Episcopacy, 1782-1807

5:15pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215

MHS logoPresented by the Boston Seminar on Early American History and sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Featuring: Brent Sirota, North Carolina State University

Comment: Chris Beneke, Bentley University

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2019 Jan 15

MHS: Camp Benson and the “GAR Camps”: Recreational Landscapes of Civil War Memory in Maine, 1886-1910

5:15pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215

MHS logoPresented by the Boston Seminar on Environmental History and sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Featuring: C. Ian Stevenson, Boston University

Comment: Ian Delahanty, Springfield College 

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2019 Jan 17

MHS: Boston Seminar on African American History (event TBD)

5:15pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215

MHS logoPresented by the Boston Seminar on African American History and co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, co-sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

 

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