Event Details

End: May 6, 2015
Contact: seminars@masshist.org
More Info: http://www.masshist.org/2012/research/seminars.

More than two dozen MHS seminars have been scheduled for 2014-2015, in five series: the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston Environmental History Seminar, the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, the New England Biography Seminar, and the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender, presented with the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The season commences with the September 23 immigration seminar, when Natalia Molina will explore the role of history and memory in a Los Angeles neighborhood’s evolving identity. David Konig will begin the early American series with an essay on Thomas Jefferson as lawyer/slave holder. In the environmental series, David Benac will discuss finding meaning in the historical landscape. Subsequent seminars will take us to the parched Southwest, postbellum New Orleans, 1970s coastal Connecticut, the social and economic geographies of postrevolutionary New York City, colonial Jamaica, and Boston’s Chinatown after WWII, among other times and places.

Most programs will be held at the MHS, 1154 Boylston Street in Boston and will consider a pre-circulated paper. The programs are free of charge, but those who subscribe to a series receive advance access to the papers that will be discussed.