• Postponed – Drink for Liberty

    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 […]

  • Postponed – A Walk with Louisa and Ellen

    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 […]

  • Postponed – Memory Lands

    This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. Williams College historian Christine DeLucia will discuss her book, Memory Lands, in which she reconsiders the markers, monuments, and “memoryscapes” that memorialize King Philip’s War alongside the processes that alternatively repress and recover Indigenous histories […]

  • Rescheduled – 31st Annual Garden Tour

    The Concord Museum's 31st Annual Garden Tour has been modified to a virtual format and rescheduled to June 19-21, 2020. The Guild of Volunteers is excited to offer the Concord Museum's 31st Annual Garden Tour as a virtual experience!  As it always has, this event will highlight some of the finest private gardens in Concord […]

  • Rescheduled – 31st Annual Garden Tour

    The Concord Museum's 31st Annual Garden Tour has been modified to a virtual format and rescheduled to June 19-21, 2020. The Guild of Volunteers is excited to offer the Concord Museum's 31st Annual Garden Tour as a virtual experience!  As it always has, this event will highlight some of the finest private gardens in Concord […]

  • Postponed – Transcendentalists and the Struggle for Social Justice

    This event was temporarily postponed. We will be sure to post the new date and time when it is confirmed. John Buehrens, former President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, will discuss the radical social activism of Boston-based Transcendentalists including Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, and Caroline Healey Dall who, among others, fought to […]

  • Paul Revere: Man and Myth Virtual Forum

    To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3kYS5a83YE Join us for a free virtual forum from the comfort of your home! Paul Revere and his midnight ride—immortalized as the harbinger of the dramatic escalation of the American colonial rebellion against the British Empire—has […]

  • A Conversation with E. Dolores Johnson

    To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvssq3l-Nes&feature=youtu.be Join us for a free virtual forum from the comfort of your home! Ralph Waldo Emerson famously observed, “All history is biography.”  As our nation continues to explore historical schisms centered on race, we’ll look […]

  • The Center of Transcendentalism: Concord or Boston?

    Join us for a free virtual forum from the comfort of your home! To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XP-DlROMl4 John Buehrens, former President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, in conversation with Phyllis Cole, Professor Emerita, Penn State University, will discuss the […]

  • Crusading Daughters of Boston and Concord

    To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13tGjO8uPL4   Join us for a free virtual forum from the comfort of your home! Join two distinguished scholars of the nineteenth century, Helen Deese and Sandra Petrulionis, as they discuss activist reformers of the Transcendentalist […]

  • Laura Walls on the Women of the Thoreau Family

    Thank you for watching our forum! To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://youtu.be/g30cm5BSEuI As we mark the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, historian Laura Dassow Walls will discuss Henry David Thoreau’s mother, sisters, and aunts based on her book, […]

  • Nicholas Basbanes on Longfellow

    To participate in the question and answer session and chat with other viewers, please visit the Museum’s YouTube page. https://youtu.be/hlh6-D54C5c Nicholas Basbanes will discuss his new biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cross of Snow, which the Wall Street Journal describes as a “superbly sympathetic” volume of “19th century America’s most popular and approachable poet.”  An […]