Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Coop Bookstore

The newly formed Leeds Baines Group for the Comparative Study of Unfree Labour together with the Working Group on Comparative Slavery (founded at Harvard in 2015) aim to bring together scholars working on slavery and indenture for a two-day conference focusing on the comparative aspects of abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Conference participants will explore research synergies and collaborative opportunities, promote a new cycle of comparative studies of slavery and indentured labour, and help define new trans-regional doctoral fields in historical research. Taking the theme...

Read more about Hutchins Center: Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: A Research Conference

Donald Yacovone, Harvard University

The Liberator’s Legacy explores popular memory of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and their fellow abolitionists in the decades following the Civil War and reveals how that legacy influenced the rise of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Through the lens of collective memory, this book will examine the changing meaning of the Civil War in American thought.

What was it like to go from being President of the United States to serving as a representative in Congress? Find out by immersing yourself in the diary of John Quincy Adams (JQA). Join the Massachusetts Historical Society’s first transcribe-a-thon! Held in celebration of JQA’s 250th birthday, the purpose of the JQA250 Transcribe-a-thon is to help the Adams Papers editorial project make more of the 15,000-page JQA Diary available online. While the ability to read handwriting is necessary, no transcription experience is required. Bring your laptop or use... Read more about MHS: Transcribe-a-thon - John Quincy Adams Diary

Inspired in part by the heroism, resistance, and resilience of abolitionist Lewis Hayden as well as the powerful stories to be found on Boston’s Black Heritage Trail, #RESISTANCE #RESILIENCE is about empowerment during tough...

Read more about Museum of African American History, Boston Campus: #RESISTANCE #RESILIENCE

After the tumultuous years of the second half of the 17th century, filled as they were with political upheaval, Indian wars, and culminating in the witchcraft crises of 1692, the new century must have seemed to local residents like entering a calm port. Although religion...

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7:00 PM  Olde Colonial Courthouse  Route 6A & Rendezvous Lane, Barnstable Village

              Linda Myers will open the evening portraying Abigail Adams. She will present a dramatization of the letters of Abigail Adams and her historical connection to Mercy Otis Warren.  The 2017 Mercy Otis Warren Woman of the Year Award will then be presented to this year's winner.  Refreshments and desserts will be served at the conclusion of the presentation.  Tales of Cape Cod Members...

Read more about Tales of Cape Cod: Mercy Otis Warren Woman of the Year Award

Registration Required: For more information, or to register, contact the Center for the Teaching of History at MHS: education@masshist.org; 617-646-0557. Registration fee: $35 per person

 

This is a two-day workshop that takes place on July 19 and 20.

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Read more about MHS Teacher Workshop: The American Revolution in Art & Artifacts

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.Margherita Desy, Historian of USS Constitution

Registration Required: https://www.masshist....

Read more about MHS Talk: The USS Constitution & the Massachusetts Historical Society

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.
RSVP online, Free Event. https://www.masshist.org/calendar

Stephen Kurkjian...

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Free Event, No Registration Required. Brown Bag Event.

Lyle Nyberg, Scituate Historical Society

One hundred years ago, upper class Boston-area residents spent summers in Rivermoor on Third Cliff in Scituate. They included dentists, lawyers, executives, suffragists, and the first American to provide prefabricated houses. They and their families came for the area’s ocean views, beaches, and cooling breezes on the wraparound porches of Colonial Revival houses built by George Welch. Welch turned what had been farmland since Native American times into a...

Read more about MHS Lecture: Rivermoor: A Summer Colony in Scituate, Lyle Nyberg, Scituate Historical Society

Registration Required: https://www.masshist.org/calendar

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm
Ann...

Read more about MHS Book Talk: The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

Registration Required: https://www.masshist.org/calendar

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm
Daina Ramey Berry,...

Read more about MHS Book Talk: The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Registration Required - https://www.masshist.org/calendar

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.
Conrad Wright...

Read more about MHS Book Talk: Pedagogues and Protesters: The Harvard college Student Diary of Stephy Peabody, 1767-1768

Explore the impact of generations of Irish in Boston from famine relief efforts to a mass migration movement, community and institutional building, and a rise in political power.

The Irish have long been an important...

Read more about MHS: The Irish Atlantic: A Story of Famine, Migration, & Opportunity Open at the Massachusetts Historical Society