By Jeremy Dibbell
We’ve got a very full calendar of events for the next few weeks. Here’s what’s going on through 7 May:
On Thursday, 22 April, former long-term research fellow April Haynes will speak on “Making ‘False Delicacy’ True: The Passions of Female Moral Reformers, 1835-1845.” This seminar, part of the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender, will be held at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard, beginning at 5:15 p.m. Please read the Seminars @ MHS blog post for more information on attending seminars, including how to make reservations and receive the papers in advance.
At 2 p.m. on Friday, 23 April, Leslie Wilson (Curator of Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library) will give a gallery talk here at MHS to complement the ongoing exhibition: “No Worthless Books: Elizabeth Peabody’s Foreign Library and Bookstore, 1840-1852.” More information here.
We’re happy to present the First Annual Jefferson Lecture on Wednesday, 28 April. Douglas L. Wilson will speak on “Jefferson’s ‘Notes on the State of Virginia’ and Lincoln’s ‘Discoveries and Inventions.'” Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., with the lecture to begin at 6 p.m. Reservations for this event are required – you can sign up here.
On Thursday, 29 April, the Boston Immigration and Urban History seminar series continues with a 5:15 p.m. talk by Gunther Peck of Duke University, “Trafficking in Race: Locating the Origins of White Slavery, 1660-1815.” Claire Potter of Wesleyan University will give the 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.
MHS Members and Fellows are invited to participate in a special tour of Mt. Auburn Cemetery on Sunday, 2 May, “Mount Auburn & the MHS: Intertwining Paths.” More information here, and registration is required for this event.
On Monday, 3 May, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas will be here for a brown-bag lunch event relating to his new book The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898. This event will begin at 12 noon, and reservations are requested. You can sign up here.
On Wednesday, 5 May, we’ll have another brown-bag lunch presentation by Danielle Boulay of Simmons College. Danielle will speak on “Portraits of Courage?: An Examination of the Civil War Carte de Visite Album of Charles P. Bowditch.” This event will begin at 12 noon.
Later on Wednesday, 5 May, there will be a panel discussion on the recent MHS publication Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). Co-editor Anthony Penna will moderate the discussion. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., with the panel convening at 6 p.m. Reservations are requested for this event; you can sign up here.
And last but certainly not least, on Thursday, 6 May the Boston Early American History seminar series continues, with Katherine A. Grandjean of Wellesley College presenting a talk, “Canoes, Cartpathsm and Colonization: The Evolution of Travel in Early New England, 1635-75.” Cynthia Van Zandt of the University of New Hampshire 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.