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  • Black Moses

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    Join award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle for a conversation about his National Book Award-longlisted book Black Moses, the riveting true story of Edward McCabe, a visionary Black leader who sought to establish a self-governed Black state in Oklahoma after Reconstruction, and the forces of racism and ambition that stood in his way. Free Members | $10 […]

  • Martin Luther King Day of Service

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    Gather at the Concord Museum to prepare Kids’ Bags that provide kid-friendly meals and snacks for a child in our local community. An activity for the whole family, decorate and assemble bags to help ensure a child has access to healthy food. In partnership with Open Table. Free. Participants are asked to bring supplemental food […]

  • Concert with Anna Huckabee Tull and Mickey Zibello

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    Concord-based musician Anna Huckabee Tull and her longtime musical partner Cambridgeite Mickey Zibello return to perform their award-winning songs and share the stories behind the music. Join us for an evening of live music, engaging tales, songs that matter, and a premier public performance of the Concord Museum-commissioned song "We Gather Here," honoring the 250th […]

  • SOLD OUT! For the Public Benefit: The Ellicott Astronomical Regulator

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    In-person attendance is at capacity. Sign up for virtual attendance to watch on YouTube. Join physicist Alan Lightman, horologist Richard Ketchen, second-generation clock dealer John Delaney, and Concord Museum Curator David Wood for a unique evening exploring one of the most precise scientific instruments to ever find its way to America in the 18th century […]

  • Breakfast with the Washingtons

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    Join General and Mrs. Washington (Glenn Siner and Sandy Spector) as they take their breakfast together in spring of 1784. Listen in on their conversation about their lives thus far and what they anticipate for their lives at Mount Vernon, now that the War for Independence is behind them. Free Members | $10 Non-Members

  • SOLD OUT! An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams on The Glorians

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    SOLD OUT! An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams on The Glorians In-person attendance is at capacity. Sign up for virtual attendance to watch on YouTube. Join acclaimed nature writer and New York Times bestselling author, Terry Tempest Williams, as she discusses her newest book The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary, a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring […]

  • SOLD OUT! An Evening with Historian Jill Lepore on the U.S. Constitution

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    In-person attendance is at capacity. Sign up for virtual attendance to watch on YouTube. Acclaimed historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore joins us for an illuminating forum on her new book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution. The conversation will explore the evolving meaning of American democracy, the Constitution, and civic life — inviting timely reflection on who “the […]

  • The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

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    Historian Rick Bell examines the American Revolution as a global turning point in The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. This forum explores how events in North America reshaped international politics, empires, and ideas about liberty, revealing the Revolution’s far-reaching and lasting consequences. Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual

  • Harold Holzer on Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

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    Presidential historian Harold Holzer explores Abraham Lincoln’s views on immigration in Brought Forth on This Continent. Drawing on Lincoln’s words and actions, this forum examines how debates over newcomers, belonging, and national identity shaped the 19th century and continue to resonate in America today.  Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual

  • Revolutionary Legacies: Between the Lines

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    Poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians) presents an original poetry reading created for Revolutionary Legacies. Hartley will share the commissioned poem inspired by Museum objects and discuss her broader work, offering Indigenous perspectives on memory, belonging, and the Revolution’s unfinished promises.  Supported in part by Mass Humanities and Concord250. Free In-Person and Virtual 

  • Gerard Magliocca on Limitations in Executive Power

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    Legal scholar Gerard Magliocca explores Justice Robert H. Jackson’s landmark concurring opinion in the Steel Seizure Case, illuminating its enduring framework for presidential power. This forum connects constitutional history to current debates, examining how Jackson’s analysis continues to shape limits on executive authority in times of crisis. Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual

  • American Disunion: An Evening with David Blight

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    Join Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight for a compelling forum on the evolving meaning of American independence. Drawing on his scholarship on Frederick Douglass, Blight will explore how the ideals of the Declaration of Independence have been interpreted and contested over time. Professor Blight will discuss Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the Slave Is the […]