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Harvard will hold its 366th Commencement on Thursday, May 25, 2017.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, will be the featured speaker at the Afternoon Program on Commencement day.

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 Please use this link to register for this free event.

 This program will feature a conversation between Russia experts Timothy Colton (Harvard University) and ...

Ancient pottery vessels are not only works of art but also representations of technical achievement, products of economic value, and windows into understanding ancient history and society. This installation showcases approximately 60 excellent, yet rarely seen prehistoric Chinese ceramics from the collections of the Harvard Art Museums and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

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Karina Galperin, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires

Monday, May 23rd at 6pm

Barker Center, Room 133

Jack Curtis 

Event is free.

https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=1893

The greatest sculptor of the Beaux-Arts era, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), secured his place in the pantheon of American artists with his dynamic portrayals of Civil War heroes. This survey of the life and work of the influential sculptor will focus on his heroic, yet compassionate 1887 Abraham Lincoln: The Man (or Standing Lincoln) in Chicago’s Lincoln Park as representative of Saint-Gaudens’s...

Free – Registration requested

https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=1892

Boston does not have a city historical society, but it has a wealth of neighborhood organizations. From the West End to the South Boston, Bostonians are steeped in local history and proud of their neighborhood’s identity. The Massachusetts Historical Society is pleased to invite the public and representatives of local organizations for a chance to mingle and share recent accomplishments or the great projects they are working on....

Reception at 5:30pm

Larry Tye, Author

$20 (free for MHS members)

https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=1891

History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. But Kennedy’s enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that had its beginnings in the conservative 1950s. In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this...

Samuel Redman, UMASS Amherst

$10 (free for MHS members)

https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=1890

In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington, DC, that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of this museum and others like it, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race...

Michael Wheeler

Free – Registration requested

https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=1889

Changing technology has introduced tools that can change the way we see and understand history.  Dr. Wheeler has degrees in history, computer science, international relations, and earned a PhD by using Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) to develop three-dimensional, animated maps for studying historical events.  During the 19^th Century urban rivalry between...