Events
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]