By Dan Hinchen

Here are the public programs on-tap for this ultimate week of April:

– Tuesday, 26 April, 5:15PM : The next installment in the Immigration and Urban History seminar series, featuring Rebecca Marchiel of the University of Mississippi, is called “Communities Must Be Vigilant: The Financial Turn in National Urban Policy.” This chapter from Marchiel’s book project explores the mixed results of 1970s efforts to revitalize neighborhoods through community-bank partnerships. Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College, provides comment. Seminars are free and open to the public; RSVP required. Subscribe to receive advance copies of the seminar papers.

– Wednesday, 27 April, 12:00PM : Pack a lunch and stopy by on Wednesday for another Brown Bag lunch talk. This time, short-term fellow Christina Carrick, Boston University, presents “Among Strangers in a Distant Climate: Loyalist Exiles Define Empire and Nation, 1775-1783.” Carrick’s project uses Loyalist correspondence networks to examine how exiles crafted and empowered new identities and in the process helped to reshape the British Empire and the United States. This talk is free and open to the public. All are welcome!

– Wednesday, 27 April, 6:00PM : Also on Wednesday is a special author talk titled “‘Most Blessed of the Patriarchs’ Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.” This talk features Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School and University of Virginia’s Peter S. Onuf, the country’s leading Jefferson scholar, as they discuss their absorbing and revealing character study which clarifies the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. This event is sold out. 

– Saturday, 30 April, 10:00AM : The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for reservations. If you would like to bring a larger party (8 or more), please contact Curator of Art Anne Bentley at 617-646-0508 or abentley@masshist.org.

While you’re here you will also have the opportunity to view our current exhibition.