https://youtu.be/T5khqGbNzdg Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School Professor and Pulitzer-Prize winner for The Hemingses of Monticello, will discuss her newest book, On Juneteenth which provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... View Article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMLkeuLcC-U In Now Comes Good Sailing, a number of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.  This virtual event, co-sponsored by the Concord Museum and the Thoreau Society, will feature the following writers:... View Article

https://youtu.be/1HdQR9xQPS4 Novelists Sue Miller and Doug Bauer will read from and discuss their respective family memoirs, The Story of My Father and What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death.  The author of ten best-selling novels, Sue Miller’s The Story of My Father, was heralded as a “beautiful, spare memoir about her relationship with her... View Article

This walking tour is full.  Thank you for your interest in our programs; please consider joining us for another event. In the 1800s, Concord was the center for American authors and thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott. They gathered together with other Concordians to discuss issues of the day... View Article

This walking tour is full.  Thank you for your interest in our programs; please consider joining us for another event. Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the... View Article

https://youtu.be/-Ft89c_rffM In Now Comes Good Sailing, a number of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.  This in-person event at the Concord Museum, and hosted in partnership with the Thoreau Society, will feature... View Article