Previous Programs

Programs include a wide variety of events, including lectures, book talks, theatrical and musical presentations, and film showings. Watch many of these programs by selecting from the list below.

previous programs

Annette Gordon-Reed, David W. Blight, and Peter S. Onuf; a manuscript used during Rethinking the Tablescape; Black Girlhood by Nazera Wright; Moses Goods in My Name is ʻŌpūkahaʻia; Jim Moran and Jill Lepore

Date	Presenter	Program	Video available
04/16/2024	Robin Bernstein	Freeman's Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison for Profit	Watch on YouTube
04/11/2024	Sarah Keyes	American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail
03/28/2024	Duncan Faherty	The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters	Watch on YouTube
03/26/2024	Manisha Sinha	The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920	Watch on YouTube
03/21/2024	Barbara Weisberg	Strong Passions	Watch on YouTube
03/14/2024	Hannah Carlson	Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close	Watch on YouTube
03/05/2024	Leslie Butler	Consistent Democracy	Watch on YouTube
02/29/2024	Martha J. Cutter	The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown	Watch on YouTube
02/20/2024	Mark Valeri	The Opening of the Protestant Mind	Watch on YouTube
02/08/2024	Nikki M. Taylor	Brooding over Bloody Revenge	Watch on YouTube
02/01/2024	Worcester Chamber Music Society	On the Edge: A Live Performance by the Worcester Chamber Music Society
01/10/2024	Lauren B. Hewes	Surprises from the Stacks: Hello 2024	Watch on YouTube
01/04/2024	Ned Blackhawk	The Rediscovery of America	Watch on YouTube
12/07/2023	Kenneth W. Rendell	Safeguarding History	Watch on YouTube
11/30/2023	Michaël Roy	Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture	Watch on YouTube
11/14/2023	David Waldstreicher	The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence	Watch on YouTube
10/26/2023	Caroline Wigginton	Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures	Watch on YouTube
10/19/2023	Nell Irvin Painter	Sojourner Truth Was A New Yorker, and She Didn’t Say That	Watch on YouTube
10/12/2023	Lawrence Buell Megan Marshall	Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently	Watch on YouTube
10/05/2023	Margaretta Lovell Scott Casper	Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America	Watch on YouTube
09/21/2023	Christen Mucher	Removal in the Archive: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession	Watch on YouTube
09/19/2023	Allison Stagg	Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828	Watch on YouTube
09/14/2023	Ron Tyler	Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images	Watch on YouTube
09/07/2023	John Wood Sweet	The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America	Watch on YouTube
07/25/2023	George Boziwick Kit Young Maria Ferrante	Emily Dickinson's Music Book: A Live Performance of an American Poet’s Musical Life	Watch on YouTube
07/19/2023	Richard Yarborough	Caterina Jarboro, the 1898 Wilmington Riot, and the Challenges of the Archive	Watch on YouTube
06/25/2023	Sonia Hazard and Christopher Allison	2023 PHBAC/CHAViC Summer Seminar
06/06/2023	Alex Krieger Edward Augustus Scott Casper	City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present	Watch on YouTube
05/25/2023	Katie McGettigan	The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860	Watch on YouTube
05/23/2023	Camille T. Dungy	Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden	Watch on YouTube
05/09/2023	Leila Philip	Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America	Watch on YouTube
05/04/2023	Rachel E. Walker	Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America	Watch on YouTube
04/27/2023	Abby Goode	Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability	Watch on YouTube
04/13/2023	Susan Schulten	Emma Willard: Maps of History	Watch on YouTube
04/06/2023	Kathryn Walkiewicz Lisa Brooks	Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State	Watch on YouTube
03/23/2023	Lloyd Pratt	The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature	Watch on YouTube
03/22/2023	Barbara McCaskill, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Ashley Cataldo, and Elizabeth Watts Pope	Phillis Wheatley Peters in Material Memory	Watch on YouTube
03/09/2023	Ilyon Woo	Behind the Scenes of "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom"	Watch on YouTube
02/23/2023	Tara Bynum	Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America	Watch on YouTube
02/02/2023	Martha S. Jones	Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All	Watch on YouTube
01/18/2023	Vincent Golden, Nikki Taylor, Derrick Spires, and Eclair Morton	Herald of Freedom: Perspectives from the Collection	Watch on YouTube
12/01/2022	Jeffrey Makala	Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture	Watch on YouTube
11/17/2022	Deborah Hall, Kimberly Toney, Ashley Wonder, Catherine Reed, and Xaulanda Thorpe	Black Women Poets Respond to the Brown Family Archive	Watch on YouTube
11/17/2022	Marcy J. Dinius	The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851	Watch on YouTube
11/10/2022	David Godine	Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher	Watch on YouTube
11/01/2022	Denise Gigante	Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America	Watch on YouTube
10/27/2022	Michael D’Alessandro	Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75	Watch on YouTube
10/22/2022	Panel presentations and discussions about the fellowship program and its impact on scholarship, careers, and the Society.	Under the Dome: Celebrating Fifty Years of AAS Fellowships
10/20/2022	Jacqueline Jones	Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: A Retrospective	Watch on YouTube
10/11/2022	Gregory Nobles	The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom	Watch on YouTube
09/28/2022	View Worcester-themed collection material and chat about them with AAS curators and staff.	Chat with a Curator: Celebrating Worcester’s 300th Anniversary	View images of collection material on display
09/22/2022	Nathaniel Philbrick	Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy	Watch on YouTube
09/15/2022	Daniel Diez Couch	American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic	Watch on YouTube
09/08/2022	Kirsten Silva Gruesz	Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: What Early America Teaches Us about Latinidad	Watch on YouTube
09/08/2022	Britt Rusert	American Studies Seminar. We Protect Us: Early American Histories of Mutual Aid and Community Care
08/31/2022	Laura E. Wasowicz, Kyle Roberts, and Babette Gehnrich	The New England Primer: Perspectives from the Collection	Watch on YouTube
07/25/2022	Derrick R. Spires and Benjamin Fagan	PHBAC Summer Seminar. Black Print, Black Activism, Black Study
07/21/2022	Michael Lawrence Dickinson	Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic	Watch on YouTube
07/07/2022	Mark Clague	O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of 'The Star-Spangled Banner’	Watch on YouTube
06/30/2022	Sarah J. Purcell	Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era	Watch on YouTube
06/26/2022	Wendy Bellion with Bethany Hughes, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., and Joseph Roach	CHAViC Summer Seminar. On Stage: Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century America
06/15/2022	Brece Honeycutt	‘A Bird to overhear--’	Watch on YouTube
05/31/2022	Mary Sarah Bilder	Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution	Watch on YouTube
05/26/2022	David K. Thomson	Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union	Watch on YouTube
05/24/2022	Shirley Hunt	Early Nineteenth-Century Musical Performance Traditions	Watch on YouTube
05/17/2022	Robert Gross	The Transcendentalists and Their World	Watch on YouTube
05/10/2022	Crystal Lynn Webster and Kabria Baumgartner in conversation with Nazera Wright	Traumas and Triumphs: A Roundtable on the History of Black Childhood	Watch on YouTube
05/03/2022	Phoebe Young	Campers, Veterans, Tramps, and More: Tracking the Hidden Origins of a National Outdoor Pastime in the 19th Century	Watch on YouTube
04/28/2022	Jennifer Putzi	Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry	Watch on YouTube
04/19/2022	Brian Ogren	The Colonial 'Cabbala of the Jews' at the American Antiquarian Society	Watch on YouTube
04/07/2022	Tiya Miles	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake	Watch on YouTube
04/05/2022	Thavolia Glymph	The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation	Watch on YouTube
03/31/2022	Hannah Farber	Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding	Watch on YouTube
03/22/2022	Nancy Rubin Stuart	Poor Richard's Women	Watch on YouTube
03/10/2022	Roberto Saba with Manisha Sinha	American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation	Watch on YouTube
03/03/2022	Jazzmen Lee-Johnson	Contraband	Watch on YouTube
02/24/2022	Reed Gochberg	Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America	Watch on YouTube
02/17/2022	Juliana Chow and Gillian Osborne	New Readings in Natural History	Watch on YouTube
02/10/2022	Elizabeth Block	Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion	Watch on YouTube
02/03/2022	David Henkin	The Week: A History	Watch on YouTube
01/27/2022	Matthew G. Kirschenbaum	Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage	Watch on YouTube
01/19/2022	Babette Gehnrich, Lauren Hewes, and Matthew Wittmann	How to Save a Circus Poster: Collection, Conservation, Context	Watch on YouTube
12/09/2021	Georgia Barnhill	Gems of Art on Paper: Early American Book Illustration	Watch on YouTube
12/02/2021	Mark Rifkin	Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form	Watch on YouTube
11/30/2021	Woody Holton	The Hidden History of the American Revolution	Watch on YouTube
11/18/2021	Elizabeth McHenry	To Make Negro Literature: Writing Literary Practice and African American Authorship	Watch on YouTube
11/17/2021	William Hart in conversation with David Silverman	Native Performances of Christianity: Survivance in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country	Watch on YouTube
11/10/2021	Aston Gonzalez	Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century	Watch on YouTube
11/01/2021	Cornelia H. Dayton in conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr.	Recovering the Lost Years of John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters	Watch on YouTube
10/28/2021	Krista Elrick in conversation with Gregory Nobles	Where Are the Birds? Rediscovering and Re-storying the Landscapes of John James Audubon	Watch on YouTube
10/28/2021	Corinna Zeltsman	Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico	Watch on YouTube
10/21/2021	James H. Merrell	The Indians’ New World Revisited	Watch on YouTube
10/05/2021	Craig Fehrman	Authors in Chief: The Untold History of Our Presidents as Writers	Watch on YouTube
09/30/2021	Gordon Fraser	Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America	Watch on YouTube
09/28/2021	Jess McHugh	Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History Through Early Bestsellers	Watch on YouTube
09/21/2021	Andrew Stauffer	Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library	Watch on YouTube
09/14/2021	Colleen Glenney Boggs	Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers	Watch on YouTube
08/26/2021	Laurie Block	Disability History: Tales, Trails, Trials
08/26/2021	Elizabeth Kimball	Translingual Inheritance: Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia	Watch on YouTube
08/19/2021	Laurel Daen Marianne R. Petit	Mouth and Toes: The World of 19th-Century Silhouette Artists with Disabilities	Watch on YouTube
07/29/2021	Billy Coleman	Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788–1865	Watch on YouTube
07/26/2021	David Paul Nord, James David Moran and Kayla Hopper	NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Educators: The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800
07/13/2021	Alea Henle	Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States	Watch on YouTube
06/29/2021	Robert Parkinson	Thirteen Clocks: How Race Made America Independent	Watch on YouTube
06/24/2021	Melissa Homestead	The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis	Watch on YouTube
06/17/2021	Lynne Zacek Bassett	Historically Hers: Revisiting American Girl Doll Stories in the Collections
06/15/2021	Vincent Brown and Marjoleine Kars	Slave Rebellions in the Atlantic World	Watch on YouTube
06/10/2021	David Mills	Boneyarn: A Poetry Reading and Discussion about Slavery in New York City
05/27/2021	Laura Heffernan and Rachel Buurma	The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study	Watch on YouTube
05/25/2021	Cooper Bicentennial Conference	Textual Editing and the Future of Scholarly Editions	Watch on YouTube
05/18/2021	Wendy Bellion	Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment	Watch on YouTube
05/06/2021	Thomas Gilbert	How Baseball Happened: A Conversation with Thomas Gilbert	Watch on YouTube
04/29/2021	Koritha Mitchell	From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture	Watch on YouTube
04/21/2021	Melanie Cataldo	Making Marbling: A Beginner’s Guide to the History and Practice of the Art
03/25/2021	Lucas Dietrich	Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920	Watch on YouTube
03/16/2021	Manisha Sinha	Rethinking Reconstruction: A Conversation with Manisha Sinha	Watch on YouTube
02/25/2021	Megan Rosenbloom	Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin	Watch on YouTube
02/15/2021	Scott Casper	Mount Vernon’s African American Community in Slavery and Freedom	Watch on YouTube
02/04/2021	Laura Wasowicz	Good Wishes for the Children Rediscovered: Hans Christian Andersen and the Launch of Sarah Gooll Putnam’s Artistic Career	Watch on YouTube
01/12/2021	Craig Dworkin	Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality	Watch on YouTube
12/03/2020	Brigitte Fielder	Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America	Watch on YouTube
12/02/2020	Ben Mutschler	Before COVID: Illness in Everyday Life in Early New England	Watch on YouTube
11/13/2020	Rachel Beth Sayet	Rethinking the Tablescape: Indigenous Origins of New England Cuisine
11/12/2020	Rodrigo Lazo	Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite	Watch on YouTube
11/05/2020	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	Phillis Wheatley Peters and African Lineage and Kinship in The Age of Phillis	Watch on YouTube
10/29/2020	Adam Gordon	Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic	Watch on YouTube
10/22/2020	Alan Taylor	Reconsidering William Cooper's Town	Watch on YouTube
10/15/2020	Annie Bissett, Diane Glancy, and TaraShea Nesbit	Telling Seventeenth-Century New England Stories Through the Archives	Watch on YouTube
10/13/2020	Ashley Cataldo and Meredith Neuman	Manuscript Cultures in 17th Century New England	Watch on YouTube
10/07/2020	CHAViC Symposium	Revere in Perspective	Watch on YouTube
09/30/2020	Daniel Mandell	Finding the Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America	Watch on YouTube
09/24/2020	Jessica Pressman	Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age	Watch on YouTube
09/17/2020	David Paul Nord, Sarah Schuetze, and Kelly Wisecup	Panel Presentation: Pestilence and Print in Early America	Watch on YouTube
08/27/2020	Amy Hildreth Chen	Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market	Watch on YouTube
07/30/2020	Jonathan Senchyne	The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature	Watch on YouTube
07/23/2020	Nicholas Basbanes	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Bard of Brattle Street	Watch on YouTube
07/14/2020	Richard Bell	Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home	Watch on YouTube
06/25/2020	Glenda Goodman	Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic	Watch on YouTube
06/08/2020	Karen Sánchez-Eppler	Isaiah Thomas’s Apprenticeship: The Labor and Value of Children’s Literature	Watch on YouTube
06/04/2020	Allison K. Lange in conversation with Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney	Picture It: The Women's Suffrage Movement	Watch on YouTube
05/28/2020	Derrick R. Spires	The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States	Watch on YouTube
03/10/2020	Mitch Kachun	First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory	Watch on C-SPAN
11/19/2019	Robert McCracken Peck	A Close Brush with History: The Extraordinary Hair Collection of Peter A. Browne
11/05/2019	Jessie Morgan-Owens	Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
10/24/2019	Manisha Sinha in conversation with Richard D. Brown	Conversation in Honor of Sid Lapidus
10/08/2019	Moses Goods, Noelani Arista and John Demos	My Name is ʻŌpūkahaʻia: A Performance and Discussion Panel Commemorating the First Missionaries to Hawaiʻi	Watch on YouTube
10/03/2019	T.H. Breen	Revolutionary Communities: Where Americans Won Independence
09/26/2019	Mark Peterson	The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power
05/21/2019	Nazera Wright	Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century	Watch on YouTube
05/02/2019	Jill Lepore	A Conversation with Jill Lepore on History and the Public	Watch on YouTube
04/16/2019	Patrick Spero	Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776	Watch on YouTube
04/02/2019	Judith Kalalora	I Now Pronounce You Lucy Stone
03/19/2019	Will Slauter	Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright	Watch on YouTube
11/27/2018	Christine DeLucia	Landscapes of Resistance and Resilience after King Philip's War	Watch on YouTube
11/13/2018	Nathaniel Philbrick	The Naval Battle That Won the American Revolution	Watch on YouTube
10/25/2018	Mary Beth Norton	Reflections on Gender and Politics in Anglo-America; or, an Intellectual Journey Encompassing Four Decades and Four Books	Watch on C-SPAN
05/31/2018	David W. Blight Annette Gordon-Reed Peter S. Onuf	Holding These Truths: A Panel Discussion about the Declaration of Independence	Watch on C-SPAN
05/15/2018	Nym Cooke and American Harmony	‘Slices of Time Past’: Choral Music from Eighteenth-Century America	Watch on YouTube
05/01/2018	Peter Onuf	Antiquarian America: Isaiah Thomas and the Ends of History	Watch on YouTube
04/24/2018	Sari Altschuler	The Medical Imagination in the Early United States
04/10/2018	Andrew O’Shaugnessy	The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire	Watch on YouTube
11/16/2017	Melanie Kiechle	What a Stench! The Civil War's Instant Cities
11/07/2017	James Alexander Dun	Second Revolutions: Thomas Jefferson and Haiti
10/26/2017	Robert A. Gross	Minutemen Revisited
10/12/2017	David Silverman	Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
10/03/2017	Judith Kalaora	"A Revolution of her Own!"
09/26/2017	Steven C. Bullock	Politeness and Public Life in Early America -- and Today
06/27/2017	Narrated by William Fowler	Declaring Independence: Then and Now
06/06/2017	Mathew Mason	Apostle of Union: Edward Everett, Memory, and Saving the Founders’ Union
05/18/2017	Georgia B. Barnhill	Bringing Pictures Back: Illustration for Nineteenth-Century American Literature	Watch on YouTube
05/02/2017	Manisha Sinha	Slave Resistance and the Making of Abolition	Watch on YouTube
04/25/2017	Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti	If I am Not for Myself Who Will Be for Me
04/20/2017	Sergey Antonov	J.S. Bach's Cello Suites
04/11/2017	Richard D. Brown	Equal Rights May Be Self-Evident, But Have They Been Realized?	Watch on YouTube
03/30/2017	Gregory Nobles	'Reader, Can You Assist Me?' John James Audubon and the Origins of Citizen Science	Watch on C-SPAN
03/16/2017	Ezra Greenspan	The Matter of Black Lives: Writing the Biography of Frederick Douglass and His Family	Watch on YouTube
11/15/2016	Patrick Rael	Did Nat Turner 'confess'?	Watch on YouTube
11/03/2016	Patricia Crain	‘The Bank of Industry’: Rewards of Merit and the ‘Emotional Capitalism’ of Nineteenth-Century Schoolroom Ephemera	Watch on YouTube
10/27/2016	Eric Foner	Revisiting America’s Unfinished Revolution	Watch on YouTube
10/13/2016	Caleb Smith	An Inside Story of African American Imprisonment before Emancipation: Austin Reed's ‘The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict’	Watch on YouTube
10/04/2016	J.L. Bell	The Arms Race of 1774	Watch on YouTube
06/09/2016	Nathaniel Philbrick	Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution	Watch on YouTube
05/19/2016	T.H. Breen	George Washington’s Journey
04/29/2016	Ginger Hildebrand David Hildebrand	Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballad Collection Concert	Watch on YouTube
04/14/2016	Eric Gardner	Re-envisioning Black ‘Book History’: The Case of AME Church Print
11/20/2015	Wendy Bellion	Representing Iconoclasm: Painting, Print, Performance
11/17/2015	Nicole Cooley Maureen Cummins	Creating Salem Lessons	Watch on YouTube
11/05/2015	Robert Allison	The Birth of the Liberty Tree
10/23/2015	Richard H. Brown	Dispatches from the Front Lines: Maps and Views of the American Revolutionary Era
10/23/2015	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Ann Lovett Stephen O'Connor	Twenty Years of Creative Artists in the Collections
10/22/2015	Linda K. Kerber	Looking Back at Women of the Republic
10/08/2015	Susan McDaniel Ceccacci	Bancroft Heights: Catching the Spirit of the Place
05/21/2015	Anne Harley Olav Chris Henriksen Na’ama Lion	‘Mild Melodious Maze’: Songs and Instrumental Music from Early America (1770-1830)
05/12/2015	Matthew Stewart	Radical Philosophy at the Origin of the American Republic
04/23/2015	Elizabeth Dillon Lisa Wilson Kyle Volk	A Panel of Recent National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarship
04/09/2015	Richard Wightman Fox	Lincoln’s Republicanism as a Way of Life
04/02/2015	Louis P. Masur	Lincoln’s Last Speech and the Problem of Reconstruction
11/06/2014	Cindy Lobel	Sampling Urban Appetites
10/24/2014		The Chains of Liberty
10/16/2014	Mary Babson Fuhrer	Old Towns in a New Nation: New England Village Life in the Early Republic
10/06/2014	Meredith McGill	Disappearing Medium: Poetry and Print in the Antebellum United States
09/12/2014	Susan Schulten	Cartographic Innovation in the Early Republic
05/29/2014	Tess Taylor	Sifting the Uneven Archive: Researching the The Forage House	Watch on YouTube
05/13/2014	Thomas Doughton	‘Slavery in the Bowels of a free & Christian Country:’ People of Color and the Struggle for Freedom in Revolutionary Massachusetts	Watch on YouTube
04/10/2014	Kenneth Carpenter	The incredible journey of Benjamin Franklin’s Way to Wealth--and its bibliographical traces	Watch on YouTube
03/25/2014		The Drama of the Dram: A Play Reading & Discussion
11/12/2013	Nicholas Basbanes	Common Bond: Stories of a World Awash in Paper	Watch on YouTube
11/07/2013	Richard Bushman	The Refinement of America: Is There Hope?	Watch on YouTube
10/22/2013	Mary Kelley	'While Pen, Ink & Paper Can Be Had': Reading and Writing in a Time of Revolution	Watch on YouTube
10/18/2013	Harold Holzer	Emancipating Lincoln: the Prose and Poetry of the Emancipation Proclamation	Watch on YouTube
10/03/2013	Kate Carney	Lowell Mills Boardinghouse Keeper
06/06/2013	Nancy Rubin Stewart	Parallel Lives of a Patriotic Heroine and a Spy	Watch on YouTube
05/23/2013	Ellen Garvey	Hidden Histories in Nineteenth-Century Scrapbooks	Watch on C-SPAN
05/14/2013	Amy Brill	Factual Flights and Fictional Worlds: Historical Truth and Narrative Invention in The Movement of Stars	Watch on YouTube
05/09/2013	Amy Hughes	Spectacle and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America	Watch on YouTube
05/02/2013	Nathaniel Philbrick	Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution	Watch on YouTube
04/24/2013	Jeffrey Hatcher	Creating Historical Theater: A Dramatic Reading of Sockdology
12/13/2012	Martha Elena Rojas	‘Matters of Surprise’: John Adams and the Diplomatic Book
11/01/2012	David Blight	From Emancipation to Civil Rights and Beyond: Legacies of the Civil War at 150	Watch on YouTube
10/25/2012	Patricia Nelson Limerick	Those Who Labor in the Archives Are the Chosen People of God, If Ever He Had a Chosen People	Watch on YouTube
10/16/2012	David Hildebrand	In Vogue with the Vulgar: Music in the War of 1812	Watch on YouTube
10/12/2012	Alan Taylor	The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies	Watch on YouTube
09/28/2012	Vincent Carretta	In Search of Phillis Wheatley	Watch on YouTube
06/05/2012	Jill Lepore	The Mansion of Happiness: Or, Finding the Meaning of Life in an Archive
05/22/2012	Peter H. Bloom D'Anna Fortunato Mary Jane Rupert	Thrill of the Trill: Music in the Emerging American Nation (1812-1876)
04/19/2012	Philip F. Gura	Celebrating the American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012	Watch on YouTube
04/05/2012	Gordon S. Wood	Does History Teach Lessons?	Watch on YouTube
11/15/2011	Carolyn Eastman	'Grandeurs which I had heard of': Books and the Imagined World of Travel in the Eighteenth Century
11/03/2011	David Jaffee	Learning to Look at Early American Material Culture	Watch on C-SPAN
10/25/2011	Joseph J. Ellis	American Love Story: Abigail and John
10/20/2011	John P. Demos	The Unredeemed Captive: Her Journey, and My Own
10/13/2011	Adam Goodheart	1861: The Civil War Awakening
05/24/2011	David S. Reynolds	Igniting the War: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Antislavery Politics, and the Rise of Lincoln
05/12/2011	James Oliver Horton Lois E. Horton	Liberty and Justice for All: The Civil War as Blacks' Second American Revolution
04/19/2011	Joshua C. Kendall	Noah Webster and the Creation of an American Culture
04/05/2011	Benjamin L. Carp	Teapot in a Tempest: Massachusetts and the Boston Tea Party
11/16/2010	John B. Hench	Random Notes from a Book History Bureaucrat	Watch on YouTube
11/09/2010	Paul Finkelman	John Peter Zenger and His Brief Narrative
10/21/2010	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	Reflections on "A Midwife's Tale"
10/12/2010	Marla R. Miller	Betsy Ross: The Life behind the Legend	Watch on YouTube
09/28/2010	Ilyon Woo	Discovering the Great Divorce	Watch on YouTube
09/16/2010	Nathaniel Philbrick	Last Stand at the Little Bighorn: A Centennial Catastrophe
06/03/2010	T.H. Breen	A Rumor that Almost Sparked a Revolution in 1774
05/18/2010	Lori D. Ginzberg	'A very radical proposition': Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Meanings of the Vote
05/04/2010	Walter Woodward	New England's Other Witch Hunt: John Winthrop, Jr. and the Hartford Witch Hunt of the 1660s
04/22/2010	Ezra Greenspan	Researching and Writing African American Biography: The Life of William Wells Brown
04/15/2010	Gordon S. Wood	Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
04/14/2010	Jim Leach Jill Lepore	Uncivil Discourse: A Conversation with Jim Leach and Jill Lepore
11/17/2009	Lauren Weber	From Cheap-Jacks to Scrooge McDuck: A Brief History of Cheapness and Thrift in America
11/06/2009	David S. Reynolds	Warriors for Freedom: John Brown and Henry David Thoreau
11/03/2009	Kevin Radaker Edmund A. Schofield	Defending John Brown: Henry David Thoreau and Worcester's Reform Tradition
10/28/2009	Bruce Ronda	The Kaleidoscope of History: John Brown after Fifteen Decades
10/22/2009	William W. Freehling	The Nullification Crisis and the Causes of the Civil War Revisited
10/16/2009	Joshua Brown	Catching His Eye: The Sporting Male Pictorial Press in the Gilded Age
05/06/2009	Martha A. Sandweiss	Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
04/21/2009	Ira Stoll	Why Samuel Adams Matters	Watch on YouTube
04/07/2009	Jill Lepore Jane Kamensky	Behind Blindspot
11/14/2008	Patricia Crain	Babes in the Wood: Print, Orality, and Children's Literature in the Nineteenth-Century United States	Watch on YouTube
11/13/2008	Scott Casper	Finding Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: Behind the Stories at an American Shrine	Watch on YouTube
10/23/2008	David Brion Davis	Reexamining The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture	Watch on YouTube
10/14/2008	David Paul Nord	A City and a Newspaper: Citizen Journalism in Philadelphia during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
10/02/2008	Jane Kamensky	Boom and Bust in the Early Republic
09/25/2008	Nancy Rubin Stuart	Revolutionary Muse	Watch on YouTube
05/22/2008	Ginger Strand	Inventing Niagara
05/13/2008	Patricia Cline Cohen Tim Gilfoyle Helen Horowitz	Preserving the Flash Press
05/06/2008	Graham Russell Gao Hodges Gary B. Nash	The Remarkable Revolutionary Relationship between Tadeuz Kosciuszko and Agrippa Hull
04/15/2008	Stephen Mihm	From Cogniac Street to State Street: The Campaign against Counterfeiters in 1830s Massachusetts
11/15/2007	Philip F. Gura	Why Transcendentalism Still Matters: Emerson and His Circle in Our Time
11/08/2007	Karen Ordahl Kupperman Walter Woodward	Captain John Smith and the Invention of English America
10/18/2007	William S. McFeely	Taking a Look at Grant Twenty-five Years Later
09/18/2007	Jim Cooke Lynn Parsons	John Quincy Adams in Russia
06/21/2007	Wayne Franklin	Financing America's First Literary Boom
04/24/2007	Debby Applegate	The Most Famous Man in America: Henry Ward Beecher
04/10/2007	Robert E. Bonner	The Real Civil War In Soldier Testimony
03/10/2007	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	Remember the Ladies: A New Reading of Abigail Adams's Famous Letter
01/19/2007	Isaiah Thomas Abby Kelley Foster John B. Gough	Rabble Rousers and Reformers
11/07/2006	Nathaniel Philbrick	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
11/02/2006	David Roderick	Blue Colonial
10/19/2006	Ellen R. Cohn	Benjamin Franklin and Music
10/18/2006	Martin E. Marty	Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
06/16/2006	David S. Shields	We Declare You Independent Whether You Wish It or Not: The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism
05/15/2006	Catherine Allgor	A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
05/09/2006	Gordon S. Wood	Environmental Hazards, Eighteenth-Century Style
04/25/2006	Richard Wightman Fox	Savior of the Nation: Lincoln's Assassination and the Birth of an American Icon
04/18/2006	Michael Fox Kennedy	"Even we here..." A One-Person Play in the Words of Abraham Lincoln
03/14/2006	Scott Sandage	The History of Failure and the Failure of History
06/10/2005	Sandra Gustafson	The Emerging Media of Early America
05/19/2005	David Paul Nord	"The World Has Gone to Reading": How Nineteenth-Century Religious Publishers and Readers Learned to Use the New Mass Medium of Print
05/03/2005	Nathaniel Philbrick	Nantucket to the World: How a New England Island Inspired America's First Ocean-Going Voyage of Discovery
04/07/2005	Bill Meikle	Franklin Alive!
03/31/2005	Gordon S. Wood	The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
11/19/2004	Philip F. Gura	Magnalia Historiae Libri Americana; or, How the American Antiquarian Society Brought the History of the Book into the New Millennium
10/22/2004	Bernard Bailyn	Thomas Hutchinson in Context: The Ordeal Revisited	Watch on YouTube
05/20/2004	Nicole Cooley	Re-imagining the Salem Witch Trials: A Poetry Reading and Discussion	Watch on YouTube
04/15/2004	Barbara Weisberg	Mysterious Raps and Apparitions: The Fox Sisters and America's Passion for Talking to the Dead
03/23/2004	Robert E. Shalhope	A New England Tragedy: The Life and Death of Hiram Harwood	Watch on YouTube
12/02/2003	Renée Sentilles	When Hype Becomes History: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Virtue of an Ambiguous Past	Watch on YouTube
11/06/2003	Gregory Nobles	Ornithology and Enterprise: Making and Marketing John James Audubon's The Birds of America
10/21/2003	James Sidbury	To Create a "Historians' Nation": Paul Cuffe's Vision of the Ties Between Africa and African-America
10/18/2003	Clay Jenkinson	Discovering Meriwether Lewis
05/01/2003	Philip F. Gura	How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson
04/22/2003	Jeremy Black	Could the British Have Won the American War of Independence?	Watch on YouTube
10/24/2002	Ellen Miles	Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington
10/17/2002	Robert A. Gross	Minutemen, Transcendentalists, and the Making of New England
09/24/2002	Helen Horowitz	The Nineteenth Century's Culture War
05/14/2002	David Silverman	Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871	Watch on YouTube
05/08/2002	Patricia Cline Cohen	Married Advocates of "Free Love " in 1850s America: Mary Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols
04/16/2002	Jill Lepore	A Nue Merrykin Dikshunary: Inventing an American Language
04/10/2002	Ray Raphael	The First American Revolution	Watch on YouTube
04/03/2002	Nicholas A. Basbanes	Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy
02/26/2002	Jill Lepore	A is for American	Watch on Library of Congress
11/27/2001	Benjamin Reiss	The True Tale of Washington's Nurse
10/23/1999	David Hall	The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World	Watch on C-SPAN
09/22/1998	Patricia Cline Cohen	The Murder of Helen Jewett	Watch on C-SPAN
02/26/1998	Jill Lepore	Name of War	Watch on C-SPAN

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