Events
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Virtual Visit with President Lincoln
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMkI_94mihw&feature=youtu.be President Lincoln is beaming in to answer your questions! The Museum is pleased to bring its popular Presidents’ Day program A Visit with President Lincoln to the virtual stage. […]
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Mount Vernon’s African American Community in Slavery and Freedom
https://youtu.be/6ZexwVL3sv8 Few national landmarks are better known than George Washington's Mount Vernon. Join us for a special Presidents' Day forum featuring Scott Casper discussing his book Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon which brilliantly recovers the life of Sarah Johnson, who spent more than fifty years at Mount Vernon, in slavery and after emancipation. Through her life and those of her family […]
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Trivia Night
Calling all history nerds and trivia champs! Join us for an evening of virtual trivia at the Concord Museum on Thursday, February 18! Test your knowledge of American history, geography, and all things Concord in this friendly competition. You can play individually, or team up with members of your household. Trivia categories will include: Who's […]
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Recounting Slavery in Historic Houses and Museums
https://youtu.be/9YHBdwBsRAM As the Concord Museum installs a new permanent gallery to chronicle the history of slavery in our town and the efforts to abolish it, join us for a conversation with Kyera Singleton (Executive Director of The Royall House and Slave Quarters) and Niya Bates (public historian at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello) as they discuss the challenges museums and historic […]
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The Boston Massacre: A Family History
https://youtu.be/gq9Kh3mQ3Bw 251 years ago this March, British soldiers shot into a crowd and killed five civilians outside Boston’s Old State House on a blustery night in 1770. In her new book on the Boston Massacre, Serena Zabin, professor of history at Carleton College, offers a unique view of the British occupation of Boston highlighting that […]
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Craft: An American History
https://youtu.be/xjPhp4c3W-U Join Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, for a discussion of his new book, Craft: An American History, which is described as “a groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day” and “as a chronicle of this country through […]
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Reflections on Gender in Early America
https://youtu.be/NuKo08jiiEA Join us for a conversation with renowned historian, Mary Beth Norton, whose scholarship explores the role women played in the narrative of our nation’s founding. She will discuss four of her award-winning books which, taken together, emphasize the unique roles women played in both colonial and revolutionary America including: Liberty’s Daughters; Founding Mothers and […]
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A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Gail Mazur
https://youtu.be/HU30MTY0trk Gail Mazur’s distinguished body of work reads as an irresolvable argument with herself, yet at its core it takes unabating delight in the enigmas of human relationships and its own contrariness. With her latest poetry collection, Land’s End, she evokes the past while writing from the firm ground of the present. Join us for […]
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Virtual April 19, 1775 Community Night
https://youtu.be/1YNQny13Xvw Local communities answered the alarm on April 19, 1775. Now, we muster again to commemorate the towns that responded to Paul Revere, William Dawes, and additional alarm riders and converged on the British Regulars in a fight that began an eight-year war for independence. Join us for a virtual evening with Curator, David Wood, […]
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April 19, 1775 Community Night
April 19, 1775 was a pivotal day in the founding of our nation as it marked the first armed engagements between the British Regulars and the Colonial “Minutemen” on Lexington Green, the Old North Bridge in Concord, and other locations between there and Boston. This was indeed the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and the […]
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April 19, 1775 Community Night
April 19, 1775 was a pivotal day in the founding of our nation as it marked the first armed engagements between the British Regulars and the Colonial “Minutemen” on Lexington Green, the Old North Bridge in Concord, and other locations between there and Boston. This was indeed the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and the […]
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Revolutionary Family Activities
Participate in drop-in activities outside in the Museum’s courtyard inspired by the Revolution. Try your hand at using a feather quill and ink to write like a revolutionary; make and decorate your own tricorne hat; and play colonial games! Activities are free with Museum admission; Members visit free. Sponsored by Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. […]