Due to the Coronavirus Concerns the Concord Museum is Temporarily Closed through March 31, 2020. Click here to read more.
Due to the Coronavirus Concerns the Concord Museum is Temporarily Closed through March 31, 2020. Click here to read more.
This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Learn all about the muskets of the Concord Museum’s collection that were fired on the Old North Bridge on April 19, 1775, in the History Learning Center. Experts Joel Bohy, of Skinner Auctioneers, and the Concord Museum’s Curator, David Wood, explore the objects that played a part in the events of the fateful day. In this unique setting, participants will…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Director of American Studies at Tufts University, reestablishes William Monroe Trotter’s essential place in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation. Trotter advocated for a radical vision of black liberation that prefigured leaders such…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. 250 years ago this March, British soldiers shot into a crowd and killed five civilians outside Boston’s Old State House on a blustery night in 1770. In her new book on the Boston Massacre, Serena Zabin, professor of history at Carleton College, offers a unique view of the British occupation of Boston highlighting that the British army at that time…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Art and Reform: The Saturday Evening Girls The Saturday Evening Girls take center stage at this year’s annual Mary Lesneski Memorial Lecture and Reception. Young immigrant women, living in the tenements of the North End in early 20th century Boston, gathered weekly to create colorful and often lyrical ceramics under the enterprise Paul Revere Pottery. The wares were sold to…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Join Harvard Professor and former Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Lisabeth Cohen in a conversation on how contested topics in American history are conveyed to the public through museum exhibits, public memorials, and reenactments. How do museums related to our nation’s founding handle the stories of indigenous people and slavery? Should memorials to Civil War heroes remain standing? How do…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. "To spend the day at their house was a rapturous event," Ellen Emerson wrote to a friend in 1869, remembering her friends, the Alcott girls. To mark the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Concord Museum places women at the center of political thought and action that reshaped the country in the early 20th century through a…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. The Last American Colony is a compelling film telling the story of one man’s quest, Juan Segarra, a Harvard-educated activist who having become acquainted with the history of his island home of Puerto Rico and its relationship to the United States chose to embrace the independence movement and became a member of Los Macheteros, (“The Machete Wielders”) a group dedicated…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Suzy Becker, Karen Dukess, and Catherine Newman invite you to join them for an evening of casual conversation. The nationally acclaimed authors will read from their own works (and each others’), share their thoughts on all manner of things, and answer questions—theirs, yours, and some humdingers from this year’s MCAS. Suzy Becker is the author-illustrator of eleven books, including the…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. David Ferriero is the 10th Archivist of the United States managing all of our nation’s official government records including the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. Join us as he shares highlights (both iconic and eclectic) from the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration. A wine and cheese reception and access to the Museum’s galleries…
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This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. The Sons of Liberty and the Continental Congress secretly joined together in the basements of taverns across Massachusetts from the Green Dragon in Boston to the Wright Tavern in Concord. Debates, arguments, and more than a few pints brought colonists to confront the British Empire in a revolution unlike any the world had ever seen. John Holl, an award-winning journalist…
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