After Lives with Megan Marshall 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 with historian John Kaag, Professor Marshall discusses her six essays that interplay between memoir and biography as she makes palpable her driving impulse to “learn what […]

Eyewitness to Revolution with American Ancestors This illustrated virtual talk will focus on the stories told by objects in the Concord Museum collection about the lead-up to April 19, 1775, and the epochal day itself. In the aggregate, these stories contribute forcefully to an understanding that the Revolution, the great turn from a monarchy to […]

Affectionate Friends and Humble Servants: Martha Washington and Mercy Otis Warren in Conversation Set in the late 18th century, this forum presents a fictional dialogue featuring Martha Washington (portrayed by Sandy Spector), the First Lady, and Mercy Otis Warren (portrayed by Michele Gabrielson), a prominent playwright and activist. In a cozy parlor setting, they discuss […]

Concord250 Lantern Lighting Ceremony Join us for a ceremonial lighting of the Concord250 Lantern, a 10-foot-tall commemorative lantern inspired by the historic signal light of April 19, 1775 housed today in the Concord Museum. The community lighting will take place on the grounds of the Museum where together we will light the way toward liberty […]

Forum and Book Launch Eyewitness to Revolution Join us for the book launch of the Concord Museum’s publication Eyewitness to Revolution: The American Revolution Collection at the Concord Museum. Written by David Wood, the book tells the story of the Revolution through the Museum’s unparalleled collection of objects related to the early days of the […]

Doris Kearns Goodwin on the American Revolution and Its Legacy Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of the most well-regarded presidential historians of our time, comes to the Concord Museum on the 250th anniversary of the “shot heard round the world” for a wide-ranging conversation with Rosie Rios, Commissioner of America250, on the history of the American […]

Claiming Sovereignty Elizabeth James-Perry, Aquinnah Wampanoag Culture Bearer and Artist, joins us for a conversation on the experiences of Native communities in the Massachusetts area during the American Revolution. As part of the new special exhibition Whose Revolution Elizabeth James-Perry created a Wampum choker that represents the kind of object an eighteenth-century Wampanoag soldier from […]

Revisiting the Classics with AI Philosopher John Kaag is joined on stage with fellow “Rebinders” to discuss the first AI-native publishing house that takes original commentary from the leading minds of our time and creates dynamic conversations, immersive videos, and personalized reading features, bringing classic books like Walden to life like never before. Learn more […]

For the People, For the Country In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union. Historian John A. Ragosta […]

Akhil Amar on Remaking America’s Constitution 1840-1920 Join renowned constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar for a forum on his powerful new book, Born Equal. Tracing the transformative period from 1840 to 1920, Amar explores how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the U.S. Constitution through four landmark amendments. From the abolition of slavery to the […]

Family Tree: A Reckoning A few years ago, historian Elizabeth Herbin-Triant uncovered a long-hidden family secret: her family tree included one of Providence’s most prolific slave traders, Cyprian Sterry. Her research into Sterry’s life—marked by great wealth, a role at Brown University, and eventual ruin—led her to explore both her white and African American lineage. […]