https://youtu.be/Bm9Xp2_8Y1I To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Concord Museum Forums presents a conversation with Congressman Ro Khanna.  His grandfather, Amarnath Vidyalankar, was inspired by Henry David Thoreau's act of civil disobedience and was jailed as part of Gandhi's independence movement. Congressman Khanna and Museum Director Tom Putnam will have a wide-ranging conversation on Mahatma […]

https://youtu.be/pEnAtDT2-tI On the eve of the 2021 presidential inaugural, the Museum is partnering with Mass Humanities on a virtual screening of a new film JFK: The Last Speech, which explores the dramatic relationship between two American icons—John F. Kennedy and Robert Frost.  The documentary chronicles how JFK’s last speech in his home state of Massachusetts at the dedication of the Robert […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iMKsvbAE70&feature=youtu.be Welcome to the Emerson family barn! Take a virtual tour of the barn behind the Emerson’s Concord home with architectural historian, Anne Forbes; Concord Museum Curator, David Wood; and Bay Emerson Bancroft of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association. See the hidden details of the historic barn, built in 1828 and newly re-opened after […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vXIlTFg8g&feature=youtu.be Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and Concord resident, Samantha Power discusses her memoir, The Education of an Idealist, and takes questions from students from Concord’s three high schools.  This forum is the kick-off event for a series of forums connected to the Museum’s upcoming exhibit, Every Path Laid Open: Women of Concord […]

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 slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. Please note that this […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]