Boston Environmental History Seminar:

Christopher Pastore, State University of New York at AlbanY
Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut; Conevery Valencius, Boston College

Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free. Subscriptions are available ($25 per year) for online access to the pre-circulated essays in 3 series.*
RSVP to seminars@masshist.org. Follow us on Twitter: @MHS_Research.
Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
*The Boston...

Read more about MHS: Panel: Common Spaces: Environmental History and the Study of Early America

Boston Environmental History Seminar:

Benjamin Kochan, Boston University
Comment: Brian Payne, Bridgewater State University

Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free. Subscriptions are available ($25 per year) for online access to the pre-circulated essays in 3 series.*
RSVP to seminars@masshist.org. Follow us on Twitter: @MHS_Research.
Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
*The Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston...

Read more about MHS: Governor Francis W. Sargent: Fisheries Manager

Boston Environmental History Seminar:

Jeffrey Egan, University of Connecticut
Comment: Karl Haglund, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free. Subscriptions are available ($25 per year) for online access to the pre-circulated essays in 3 series.*
RSVP to seminars@masshist.org. Follow us on Twitter: @MHS_Research.
Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
*The Boston Area Early American...

Read more about MHS: The Fight Before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Debate Over Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927

Boston Environmental History Seminar:

Hannah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
Comment: Thomas Wickman, Trinity College

Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free. Subscriptions are available ($25 per year) for online access to the pre-circulated essays in 3 series.*
RSVP to seminars@masshist.org. Follow us on Twitter: @MHS_Research.
Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
*The Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston...

Read more about MHS: Lived Botany: Settler Colonialism, Household Knowledge Production, and Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Boston Environmental History Seminar:

Jacqueline Gonzales, Historical Research Associates
Comment: Steven Moga, Smith College

Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free. Subscriptions are available ($25 per year) for online access to the pre-circulated essays in 3 series.*
RSVP to seminars@masshist.org. Follow us on Twitter: @MHS_Research.
Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
*The Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston...

Read more about MHS: Drafting the Cape Cod Formula

Boston Environmental History Seminar:

James Rice, Tufts University
Comment: Chris Parsons, Northeastern University

Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free. Subscriptions are available ($25 per year) for online access to the pre-circulated essays in 3 series.*
RSVP to seminars@masshist.org. Follow us on Twitter: @MHS_Research.
Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
*The Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston Environmental...

Read more about MHS: Early American Environmental Histories

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years, and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field.

Adrian Weimer, Providence College

Accused regicide and former pastor of Salem, Massachusetts, Hugh Peter was the target of colorful satirical ballads and mock-sermons in the mid-seventeenth century. This presentation will explore the ways Royalists attacked...

Read more about MHS: The Roasting of Hugh Peter: Satire and Politics in Early America

Shira Lurie, University of Virginia

This project examines conflicts over liberty poles in the 1790s. Liberty poles offered grassroots partisans a tangible...

Read more about MHS: Politics at the Poles: Liberty Poles and the Popular Struggle for the New Republic

Kabria Baumgartner, University of New Hampshire

Eunice Ross. Phebe Ann Boston. Sarah Roberts. Sarah Parker Remond. Charlotte Forten Grimké. Joanna Turpin...

Read more about MHS: Equal School Rights: Black Girlhood and School Desegregation in Antebellum Massachusetts

Nancy Siegel, Towson University

Culinary activists furthered republican values in the revolutionary era as part of a political and cultural ideology. They...

Read more about MHS: Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic

Laura McCoy, Northwestern University

Tasked with maintaining the comfort and happiness of their families even in the face of adversity, many middling- and...

Read more about MHS: "Let it be your resolution to be happy": Women's Emotion Work in the Early Republic

Heather Sanford, Brown University

This project uses food in the British Atlantic to understand ideas about the body, race, and freedom. In New England, the...

Read more about MHS: Palatable Slavery: Food, Race, and Freedom in the British Atlantic, 1620-1838

J. Ritchie Garrison, University of Delaware

This talk considers the maritime economy in the early modern Atlantic World, focusing on the infrastructure of...

Read more about MHS: Commerce and the Material Culture of the Maritime Atlantic World

Calling all graduate students and faculty in history, American Studies, or any related field! Please join us for our eighth annual Graduate Student Reception.

Starting at six pm, you can enjoy free drinks and hors d’oeuvres as you meet students and professors from other universities working in your fields. At 6:30 or a little later, set down your glass and take a behind-the-scenes tour to learn more about the Society's collections as well as the resources available to support your scholarship, from research fellowships to our five different seminar series.

Faculty,...

Read more about MHS: Graduate Student Reception - Please RSVP