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

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There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.
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Stephen Kurkjian, a Pulitzer Prize–winning...

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...

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There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm
Ann Little, Colorado State...

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

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

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 presence in Boston. The...

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

Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Andrew Carroll, the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University

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General Pershing, who led all of the...

The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a 90-minute docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for reservations. If you would like to bring a larger party (8 or more), please contact Curator of Art Anne Bentley at 617-646-0508 or abentley@masshist.org.

While you're here you will also have the opportunity to view our current exhibition: The Irish Atlantic: A Story of Famine Migration and Opportunity...

Joyce Chaplin, Michael Krondl, Carla Martin and moderator Gavin Kleespies

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Jason L. Newton, Syracuse University

Comment: Richard W. Judd, University of Maine

Industrial logging operators used the winter weather, wood, simple machines, and muscle power alone to increase the production and transportation of saw logs to reach industrial scale and efficiency. Drawing on methods from environmental and labor history and the history of slavery and capitalism, this essay characterizes industrial capitalism as a force that will sustain seemingly anachronistic modes of production as long as they remain profitable....

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

Holger Hoock, University of Pittsburgh

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The American...

Brown Bag Lunch Event

Emily Gephart, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

In his Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin argued that fashion’s pursuit of novelty functioned in modern society as an attempt to stave off the inevitability of death. Yet, in millinery fashion at the turn of the 20^thcentury, death was often conspicuously visible: popular plumed hats provoked crises in global extinction, inspired passionate advocacy for bird protection and trade restriction, and led—eventually—to wholesale changes in...