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  • 8th Annual Sally Lanagan Lecture

    https://youtu.be/yePfdk2fQ3o Our 8th annual Sally Lanagan Lecture will feature gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands speaking on his new book, The Zealot and the Emancipator, recounting the epic struggle over […]

  • 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.  […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]