• Black Girls and Their Needlework in Early America

    11th Annual Sally Lanagan Lecture https://youtube.com/live/xnwa6HdHAUM?feature=share Dr. Kelli Racine Barnes joins us to discuss the lives and experiences of Black girls during the late 1700s and early 1800s in the northeastern United States by examining the needlework they created.  By using material culture as primary evidence, the needlework provides valuable clues about the lives of […]

  • A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ow0uuCVv10 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian Katherine Howe joins us to discuss her new novel A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself.  Set in Boston during the Golden Age of Piracy, A True Account takes us on one young woman’s adventure as one of the most terrifying […]