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October 2020
Panel: Indigenous-Led Cultural Regeneration + Commemoration
Tufts University Art Galleries presents the panel discussion, "Indigenous-Led Cultural Regeneration + Commemoration," in conjunction with its current exhibition "Ecologies of Acknowledgment," an artist project that focuses on the land use history of Deer Island in the Boston Harbor. Artists Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown will be in dialogue with Faries Gray and Elizabeth Solomon, both of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag, and Kristen Wyman (Natick Nipmuc) and Nia Holley (Nipmuc) with the Eastern Woodland Rematriation collective, on the present-day…
Find out more »November 2020
Endgame: A Virtual Remembrance of the End of World War II
The Medford Historical Society & Museum invites you to a Veterans Day presentation of "Endgame: A Virtual Remembrance of the End of World War II," with Dr. Joseph McCarthy, and WWII scholar and Professor Emeritus at Suffolk University. "Endgame" recounts the last days of WWII 75 years ago, including the Allied thrust into Germany from the west; the mountain campaigns in northern Italy and the partisan fighting there; the Russian attack on Berlin; the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, then…
Find out more »January 2021
Return of the Moguls with Dan Kennedy
Join Medford resident and media commentator Dan Kennedy for “The Return of the Moguls: Jeff Bezos, John Henry, and the Fate of Newspapers,” co-sponsored by the Medford Historical Society & Museum and Friends of the Medford Public Library. Kennedy, associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a regular panelist on WGBH-TV’s “Beat the Press,” will speak about the giant history and precarious future of newspapers. A question-and-answer period will follow. Register via Eventrbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mhsm-return-of-the-moguls-jeff-bezos-john-henry-the-fate-of-newspapers-tickets-131349027477
Find out more »Grace Justice Movie Series: Selma
Grace Episcopal Church Medford presents the first installment of its Grace Justice Movie Series with an online discussion of "Selma," a 2014 historical drama based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. More details will be available on the church's website: www.gracemedford.org/virtual
Find out more »February 2021
Author Talk: Stephen Puleo – Voyage of Mercy
The Medford Historical Society and Museum presents author and historian Stephen Puleo in a Zoom talk about his book, "Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission." Puleo’s well-researched book tells the incredible story of the Irish potato famine, the USS Jamestown voyage, its captain Robert Bennet Forbes, the Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city, and the commitment of thousands of ordinary Americans who offered relief…
Find out more »Royall House & Slave Quarters Virtual Tour Premiere
The Royall House & Slave Quarters invites you to the premiere of its new museum tour video. This virtual museum experience will allow the RHSQ to continue to serve as a vital resource on the history of Northern slavery for local communities while its remains closed due to COVID-19, and for those at a distance when the site reopens. The virtual tour uses the history of the Royall family, a local slave-trading family, to tell the often forgotten history of…
Find out more »March 2021
The Four Billion Year Story of Medford
The Medford Public Library invites you to "The Four Billion Year Story of Medford" with geologist Eamon McCarthy Earls. Vanished continents? Volcanoes? Dinosaurs? Glaciers? Discover the incredible four billion year true story of our community from the formation of Earth to the present day. Author of multiple books on regional history and a former town councilor in Franklin, Massachusetts, Earls studied geology at UMASS-Amherst. Register via the library's online calendar: https://www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=MEDFORD&curID=491444
Find out more »Plants Go to War with Judith Sumner
The Medford Public Library presents "Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II," an online program with botanist and author Judith Sumner. In a blend of botanical and military history, Sumner will talk about the surprising and crucial role of plants in World War II. From victory gardens to drugs, timber, rubber, and fibers, plants supplied materials with key roles in victory. Sumner has been the lecturer-in-residence at the Star Island Natural History Conference in New Hampshire,…
Find out more »Confronting Racial Injustice: Redlining
The Royall House & Slave Quarters is co-sponsoring the Confronting Racial Injustice Series of five monthly programs hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Law School's Criminal Justice Task Force. Join community activists and urban planners as they discuss Boston's history of redlining and discriminatory housing policies, the complicity of the banks and the real estate industry, and the consequent legacy of segregation and racial wealth disparity. Panelists will also identify some specific actions that can be taken…
Find out more »The Unresolved Legacy of Reconstruction
The Royall House & Slave Quarters presents a talk by historian Eric Foner titled "The Unresolved Legacy of Reconstruction and the Fight for Social Justice Today." Foner, one of this country's most prominent historians, will lead an engaging discussion of what we can learn about present-day America from the failures of Reconstruction, and how sites of slavery can respond to our current moment. Registration is required through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-unresolved-legacy-of-reconstruction-tickets-144780575599 For this final program in the RHSQ's Giving Voice fundraiser series,…
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