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  • A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Robert D. Richardson III Annual Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlgIKlQh7BE More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James […]

  • Half American: A Memorial Day Forum

    https://youtube.com/live/_NJ8qXMdCTU?feature=share Join Dartmouth College Historian Matthew F. Delmont for a forum on his award-winning new book Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.  More than one million Black soldiers served in World War II in segregated units while waging a dual battle against inequality in the […]

  • American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty that Shaped a Nation

    https://youtube.com/live/XhThp1SDWo8?feature=share Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old farmhouse just north of Concord, historian John Kaag takes us on a multi-generational exploration of one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. The Bloods explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual—that would become the very core of […]

  • Butch Heroes: A Conversation with Ria Brodell

    This forum is postponed. Please keep an eye out for a new date. Ria Brodell is a non-binary trans artist, educator, and author with a current solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Ria joins us at the Museum for a conversation on their ongoing series entitled Butch Heroes. Through this revelatory project of historic […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • A House Restored: A Conversation on Saving a New England Colonial

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    12th Annual Sally Lanagan Forum  Architectural Conservator and author, Lee McColgan, joins us for a conversation on his journey saving the ramshackle Loring House in Pembroke, Massachusetts, built in 1702, using period materials and methods and on a holiday deadline.  Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee dives into the unexpected challenges of restoring […]

  • Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material Worlds

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    Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material World Henry David Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector.  Ivan Gaskell, professor of cultural history and museum studies at Bard Graduate Center and author of Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material World, will be joined by Concord Museum Curator David Wood for […]

  • FULL! Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America

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    Registration is full. Please sign up to watch virtually or consider joining us at another program. Legal scholar and analyst for MSNBC and NBC News and professor at the University of Michigan Law School, Barbara McQuade, joins us for a conversation on how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our […]