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  • An Evening with Tiya Miles on Harriet Tubman

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxvSmNSWWo National Book Award–winning author Tiya Miles, joins 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqueline Jones for a revelatory conversation on the myth and the truth behind Harriet Tubman, one of the most famous Americans ever born who few really understand. A figure more out of myth than history, Harriet Tubman becomes an even clearer and sharper […]

  • Full! A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

    A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord This program is full. Please join us for another program this summer. When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we picture him during the two years he spent living at Walden Pond.  But did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life?  Take a unique […]

  • We Were Friends

    Episode One: Two Years In: Birthdays Advanced ticket sales are now closed. Please purchase tickets at the door. Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends, a playful reimagining of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s profound friendship set in today’s world. In this 12-part series (two episodes of which are being performed at the Concord […]

  • FULL! Grave Detectives Walking Tour

    This program is full. Please join us for another program this summer! Tour the first burial ground in Concord dating to c. 1636 learning about past Concordians with a Museum educator. Explore the classic iconography of New England headstones that feature winged skulls or “death’s head”, urns, willows, and others. This tour includes about 1 […]

  • We Were Friends Play

    Episode: And Then: Late Night This program is full. At-the-door registration is closed, and there will be no tickets for sale at the door.  Because of inclement weather, this program is now being held inside the Churchill and Janet Franklin Lyceum at the Concord Museum. Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends, a playful reimagining […]

  • 1774 and All That

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    1774 and All That: Reflections on a Long Year of Revolution One of the most acclaimed and original colonial historians of our time, Mary Beth Norton, shares her landmark text 1774: The Long Year of Revolution chronicling the revolutionary changes that occurred from December 1773 to April 1775—from the Boston Tea Party to the Battles […]

  • How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

    Featured 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

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    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 […]