• FULL! Make Your Own Paul Revere Lantern

    FULL! Thank you for your interest in our family programs.  We hope that you consider participating in our other events this spring. Listen along to a reading of the famous […]

  • FULL! Make Your Own Paul Revere Lantern

    FULL! Thank you for your interest in our family programs.  We hope that you consider participating in our other events this spring. Listen along to a reading of the famous […]

  • Emerson, Thoreau, and Frost: A Conversation with Jay Parini

    https://youtu.be/tsvqIAeaRqs Join poet, novelist, biographer, and critic Jay Parini in a wide-ranging discussion of three granite figures of New England and American literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and […]

  • FULL! Brewster and the Birds Walking Tour

    Thank you for your interest in our programs! We hope that you consider joining us for other events this spring. A young William Brewster and his childhood friend Daniel Chester […]

  • Anna Malaika Tubbs on The Three Mothers

    https://youtu.be/wDkNdtquhOM On the eve of Mother’s Day, join biographer Anna Malaika Tubbs as she discusses her new book, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X, […]

  • Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling

    https://youtu.be/Dzg8vofPwwk Join former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift; Pulitzer-Prize winning Boston Globe columnist, Eileen McNamara; and former Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong, as they discuss the successes earned and challenges faced by […]

  • Every Path Laid Open: Women of Concord and the Quest for Equality

      In 1845, feminist Margaret Fuller described the ultimate goal of women’s suffrage: “We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.” Spoken seventy-five years before American women had the legal right to vote in national elections, Fuller’s rallying cry inspired a movement for women's equality that continues today. In […]

  • Telling Women’s Stories: StoryCorp DIY

    Tell a story about a woman in your life; tell a story with a woman in your life.  Participate in the Museum’s oral history program recording stories about the important women in our lives.  The recordings will become part of the StoryCorps Archive through the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, preserving your […]