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. As […]

In-person tickets are sold out. Please reserve virtual tickets or join us for another forum this winter. 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 about […]

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 Register using the form below. Supported in part […]

Paul Revere’s legacy has been both elevated and obscured by his now famous ride, 250 years ago on April 18, 1775. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s dramatic poem replaced what actually happened with a much beloved romantic version. Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association, and Robert Martello, Professor of the History of Science and […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Megan Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it in After Lives. In conversation, Professor Marshall discusses her six essays that interplay between memoir and biography as she makes palpable her driving impulse to “learn what I could from others: how to live, how not […]