The Medford Public Library is co-sponsoring the online program "Codes and Ciphers in the American Revolutionary War" led by education coordinator for Historic New England. Codes, ciphers, and all manner of methods have been used for hundreds of years to secretly send messages. This program explores some of the devices and codes that were used during the American Revolutionary War, as well as the spies that would utilize them. Co-sponsored by the Tewksbury Public Library. Register directly on Zoom here.

Medford Historical Society & Museum board member Will Tenney has dedicated five years to researching house histories for the MHSM Historical House Marker Program. In this program, he will offer a brief overview of the process and resources he uses to research the history of Medford houses. He will also introduce the audience to a fascinating character he found recently while researching a property – a larger-than-life, 19th-century self-made man who has left quite a legacy here in Medford, a…

The Medford Historical Society & Museum is co-sponsoring an online program on the the Massachusetts 54th Regiment presented by Shawn Quigley, National Park Ranger at the Boston African American National Historic Site. In May 1863 the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first African American regiments to fight for the Union during the Civil War, marched out of Boston. The regiment was formed immediately following the Emancipation Proclamation. The 54th Regiment changed public opinion about African Americans serving in combat and…

In honor of this Black History Month's theme of Black Resistance, the Royall House & Slave Quarters is hosting a reading and discussion of Belinda Sutton's 1783 pension petition. In her 1783 petition to the Massachusetts General Court, Sutton recounted her life story and claimed a pension from the estate of Isaac Royall Jr. Her public assertion of her rights has given her a place in history and public memory. The program will include poetry by Medford poet laureate Terry…

The Medford Public Library invites you to celebrate Women’s History Month with the online program "Hidden Figures and Other Women of NASA." Explore the lives of the many women who made their dreams of careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics come true at NASA, and who have been an essential part of the space program since its inception. Through the movie "Hidden Figures" we learned that NASA had women, many of whom were African American, working as “human computers” performing highly complex…