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  • Women in the Civil War: A Conversation with Thavolia Glymph

    https://youtu.be/PZ0JT6NXVYQ Join historian Thavolia Glymph in a discussion of her book, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War—North and South, white and black, enslaved and free—showing how women were fully engaged in the military fight, wartime struggles […]

  • The Living Memorial: Daniel Chester French’s Lincoln at 100 with Harold Holzer

    https://youtu.be/whSfRUrfhQg Harold Holzer, leading historian of Abraham Lincoln and author of the award-winning Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French, explores the 50-year career of the great American sculptor, and his greatest achievement: the iconic Lincoln statue on the National Mall. How did French prepare for his biggest challenge? And how has […]

  • Monuments of Concord Walking Tour

    This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this fall. Join us for a guided walk of monuments in Concord’s town center.  What do they commemorate? Who built them? And what is their legacy today? In the town where Daniel Chester French received his first commission, there are many monuments to explore. […]

  • A Conversation with Gregory Maguire: 30th Annual Concord Festival of Authors Kick-Off Event

    https://youtu.be/tCB1UF8UmsU Author of Wicked and beloved Concordian, Gregory Maguire, kicks off the 30th Annual Concord Festival of Authors with a conversation on writing, art, and culture with GBH Executive Arts Editor, Jared Bowen.  Returning to the world first created in Wicked, Gregory and Jared will discuss Gregory’s newest book in the Another Day series – […]

  • A Wondrous Light: Music and Transcendentalism

    The Boston Cecilia, one of the country’s oldest and most acclaimed choral groups, will offer an intimate a capella concert of works connected to Transcendentalism, featuring choral arrangements from Paul John Rudoi's oratorio Our Transcendental Passion and a premiere composition by Cecilia member Benjamin Perry. The Boston Cecilia is glad to donate this performance to […]

  • Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

    This program is full. Please consider joining us for another program this fall. Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the generations. 1 mile walk, mostly flat sidewalk […]

  • Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

    This program is full.  Please consider joining us for the 1:30 p.m. tour. Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the generations. 1 mile walk, mostly flat sidewalk […]

  • Emerson’s Circle Walking Tour

    This program is full.  Please consider joining us for other programs this fall. In the 1800s, Concord was the center for American authors and thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott. They gathered together with other Concordians to discuss issues of the day such as slavery, war, the natural world, […]

  • 10th Annual Sally Lanagan Lecture

    https://youtu.be/Vm4Gtqb0uy4 The Best Ever! Parades in New England “Jane Nylander reminds us that ‘everyone loves a parade!’” – Philip Zea, President Emeritus, Historic Deerfield.  Join us for the 10th annual Sally Lanagan Lecture where historian Jane Nylander explores the cultural history of New England parades from the start of the nation to World War II. […]

  • Kerri Greenidge on the Grimke Sisters

    https://youtu.be/z6RKLDyZ4so Join historian Kerri Greenidge to launch her newest book The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.  Reexamine the legendary abolitionists and the Black members of their family whose experiences had previously been obscured. This forum is being held in-person and virtually. Register using the form below. Forums are supported in part […]

  • A Conversation with Philip Deloria

    https://youtu.be/BlS3jJa82Tk Join Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History at Harvard University, for a wide-ranging conversation about his distinguished career as a scholar of Native American history and current trends in the field today. Deloria is the author of Playing Indian (1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), and Becoming Mary Sully (2019).