By Jeremy Dibbell

A busy week this week at MHS, with two brown-bag lunches and an evening seminar:

On Wednesday, 3 March, beginning at 12 noon, research fellow Mazie Harris will give a brown-bag lunch talk on her current project, “Visual Vignettes: Nineteenth Century American Portrait Vignettes and Card Albums.”

On Thursday, 4 March, as part of the Boston Early American History seminar series, Stephen Bullock of WPI will present a talk, “The Princess and the Pinckneys: Children, Affections and Power in Mid-Eighteenth-Century America.” Brendan McConville of Boston University will deliver a comment. Please read the Seminars @ MHS blog post for more information on attending seminars, including how to make reservations and receive the papers in advance. The seminar will begin at 5:15 p.m.

And on Friday, 5 March, another brown-bag lunch at 12 noon, this time with Margaret Higonnet, who will speak on “The World War I Diary of Margaret Hall.” More info here.