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How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein
How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in his new book How To Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be. Using modern data analysis techniques to show […]
Making the Presidency
John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic Renowned presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, joins us for a conversation on John Adams’ five year-battle to defend the presidency. 1797 wasn’t too different from 2024, with pandemics, battles over immigration and citizenship, […]
FULL! Nummeehquantamūmun: Artist Talk
This program is full. Please join us for another program this fall! Join artist nia holley, Nipmuc, for a talk about her installation that reintroduced corn in the Museum's courtyard. Learn about the artist's inspiration and process while seeing the installation in its final days before harvest. Learn more about Nummeehquantamūmun and the collaboration between […]
The Artists and the Orchard
Join us for an evening exploring the beauty and wisdom of apple trees through words and images with artists Ellen Harasimowicz and Linda Hoffman. Linda Hoffman will share from her writings of conversations with an apple tree that they held over a year on her orchard Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, MA. Throughout the […]
FULL! Sleepy Hollow-een Tour
This tour is full. Please join us for another program this fall. 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 generations. 1 mile walk, mostly flat sidewalk or […]
A Dialogue with The Veda: Hindu Scripture and the Transcendentalists
When we think of the connections between the Transcendentalists and Eastern culture, we often think about Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay Civil Disobedience and its influence on leaders of non-violent protest movements throughout the world, including Mahatma Gandhi. However, the exchange of ideas went both ways, and the thoughts and writings of Thoreau and Raph […]
Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material Worlds
Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material World Henry David Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. Ivan Gaskell, professor of cultural history and museum studies at Bard Graduate Center and author of Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material World, will be joined by Concord Museum Curator David Wood for […]
FULL! Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America
Registration is full. Please sign up to watch virtually or consider joining us at another program. Legal scholar and analyst for MSNBC and NBC News and professor at the University of Michigan Law School, Barbara McQuade, joins us for a conversation on how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our […]
Akhil Amar on The US Constitution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKx95mPD7U Akhil Amar, preeminent legal scholar and author of The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, joins us for a conversation on the US Constitution. Uniting history and law through the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, Professor Amar discusses the formative decades of the Constitution after its ratification and its resonance today. […]
An Evening of Songs and Stories
An uplifting way to fill an evening with wonder, Anna Huckabee Tull, Concord-based musician and author of Living the Deeper YES, and her musical partner Mickey Zibello share their award-winning songs and the stories that brought the music to life. Together they remind us of how valuable it is to think broadly and feel deeply. […]
Governor Charlie Baker on Getting Important Work Done
In-person tickets are sold out. Please reserve virtual tickets or join us for another forum this winter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-te64-jiU68 Governor Charlie Baker and his long-time associate Steven Kadish discuss their method for getting past politics and delivering results in the public and private sectors. Their new book Results is not only about getting things done, but […]
Fashioning Identity: The Garrisons and African American Fashion in Photography
Fashion historian Jonathan Michael Square explores the historical significance of the Garrisons' portraits in the context of African American fashion, and how these images fit into the larger narrative of how African Americans have expressed themselves through fashion. Free for Members | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual Supported in part by the Sally Lanagan Fund. […]