This Week @ MHS
The fall season is in full-swing. We are offering three evening programs, a brown-bag lunch, and a building tour this week. There is a little something for everyone, so plan on stopping in. Additional details about all events are available through our online calendar.
Monday, 1 October at 6:00 PM, Christian Samito, Boston University School of Law, discusses “The War of 1812 & the Making of Modern America.” This program is presented in partnership with the USS Constitution Museum as part of the War of 1812 Bicentennial Series. There is a pre-event reception at 5:30. Reservations are requested. RSVP by calling 617-646-0560.
Tuesday, 2 October at 5:15 PM, the Boston Early American History Seminar series returns with Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania, presenting “Colonial Proprieties: Atlantic Possession in England’s Restoration Era.” Steven Pincus, Yale University, will provide the comment. Advance copies of seminar papers are available to series subscribers. RSVPs are required, and can be made by contacting Kate Viens via email or at 617-646-0568.
Wednesday, 3 October at 12:00 PM, bring your lunch and enjoy the conversation as Lauri Coleman, College of William and Mary, presents “’Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise’: Popular Almanacs and Weather Cosmology in Mid-eighteenth Century America” at a brown-bag lunch program.
Thursday, 4 October at 5:30 PM, the New England Biography Seminar series kicks off with Judith Tick, Northeastern University; Jan Swafford, The Boston Conservatory; and Tim Riley, Emerson College, sharing their insights on “Symphony and Song: Writing Lives in Music” Megan Marshall, Emerson College, will moderate the discussion. RSVPs are required, and can be made by contacting Kate Viens via email or at 617-646-0568.
Saturday, 6 October at 10:00 AM, all are welcome to explore the “History and Collections of the MHS” during our 90-minute guided tour.
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If you are planning ahead, NEXT WEEK @ MHS, on Monday, 8 October, we are participating in the Fenway Alliance’s annual Opening our Doors event. The MHS galleries will be open from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The research library will be closed. Stay tuned for the next installment of This Week @ MHS (or consult the online calendar) for details about additional events next week.
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| Published: Monday, 1 October, 2012, 8:00 AM
This week @MHS
On Tuesday, September 18, the fall seminar season kicks off with the first Immigration and Urban History Seminar. Join Brooke L. Blower, Boston University, as she explores why Allied strategists allowed Spaniards Marcelino Garcia and Manuel Diaz, two ardent Franco supporters and Nazi sympathizers, to remain in play for the duration of World War II. RSVPs are required and advance copies of Blower's paper "Devil’s Bargain: New York City’s Premier Spanish Shipping Agents and Allied Strategy during World War II" are available to series subscribers. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University, will give the comment.
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| Published: Monday, 17 September, 2012, 1:00 AM
This Week @ MHS
Join us at noon on Wednesday, 15 August, for a brown-bag lunch "Cotton Mather's use of Jacques Basnage's History of the Jews in the Biblia Americana," presented by Rick Kennedy of Point Loma Nazarene University. Kennedy will present his thoughts on Basnage's influence on Mather as a historian and then will field questions from the audience.
Visitors can also stop in anytime between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM, Monday through Saturday to explore our latest exhibition, Mr. Madison's War: The Controversial War of 1812. This exhibition showcases a number of letters, broadsides, artifacts, and images from the Society's rich collections including a midshipman's log of the USS Constitution describing the ship's first great victory, letters written by John Quincy Adams to his mother while serving as the American minister to Russia, and a brass cannon captured from the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
And on Saturday, 18 August, do not miss our building tour "The History and Collections of the MHS." The 90-minute tour departs our front lobby promptly at 10:00 AM.
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| Published: Monday, 13 August, 2012, 8:00 AM
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Looking for something to do on your lunch break today? Why not visit 1154 Boylston at noon and enjoy a stimulating brown-bag lunch program. Lindsay Moore, Boston University, will present her research "Women, Power, and Litigation in the English Atlantic World, 1630-1700," which explores how female litigants in England and early colonial America used the law courts to protect their rights to property.
Cannot make it all the way to the Back Bay on your lunch hour? Plan on attending our building tour this coming Saturday. The guided tour, "The History and Collections of the MHS," departs the front lobby promptly at 10:00 AM.
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| Published: Monday, 6 August, 2012, 8:00 AM
This Week @ MHS
If you are in the neighborhood at lunch time on Wednesday, 1 August, plan to attend our brown-bag lunch.Research fellow Justin Clark, University of Southern California, will present "Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870." Clark will describe his work examining why, in the spectacular world of the nineteenth-century city, Boston’s Transcendentalists, clairvoyants, blind autobiographers, naturalists, artists, photographers, and numerous others became invested in seeing more than meets the eye, leaving time for discussion with audience members.
Before or after lunch -- or anytime between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM, Monday through Saturday -- take some time to explore our latest exhibition, Mr. Madison's War: The Controversial War of 1812, showcasing a number of letters, broadsides, artifacts, and images from the Society's rich collections including a midshipman's log of the USS Constitution describing the ship's first great victory, letters written by John Quincy Adams to his mother while serving as the American minister to Russia, and a brass cannon captured from the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
And on Saturday, 4 August, do not miss "The History and Collections of the MHS," our regular building tour. The 90-minute tour departs our front lobby promptly at 10:00 AM.
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| Published: Tuesday, 31 July, 2012, 8:00 AM
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