*****SPRING 2011*****

# credit for the Forging of an American Nation, 1783-1865 (HI224)

JANUARY

# Thursday, January 20, 6:00 p.m., “The Meaning and Legacy of Charles Sumner,” $5 admission. Museum of African American History’s Abiel Smith School, 46 Joy St., Beacon Hill, Boston.

Monday, January 24, 7:00 p.m., Delvyn Case, “Listen Up: Modern Music from Debussy to Case,” Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington St., Quincy.

Wednesday, January 26, 7:00 p.m., Lewis Hyde, “Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership,” FPC Parish House, 3 Church St., Cambridge.

Thursday, January 27, 6:00 p.m., Daniel Lieberman, “Heads Up! How and Why the Amazing Human Head Evolved to Be the Way It Is,” Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge.

FEBRUARY

Wednesday, February 2, 5:30 p.m., Andrew Buckley, “’Hit and Run History’ Film and Discussion,” Reservations requested. Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston.

Thursday, February 3, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Alan Khazei, “Ask What You Can Do For Your Country,” Registration Required. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Columbia Point, Boston.

# Wednesday, February 9, 6:30 p.m., Alex R. Goldfeld, “From the North End to Beacon Hill: Boston’s Black Community Since 1783,” Central Library, 700 Boylston St., Copley Square, Boston.

Wednesday, February 9, 7:00 p.m., “Deadly Medicine in the Nazi Era: What turned Physician Healers into Killers?” Central Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston.

Saturday, February 12, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., “The Prioress’s Tale (A Chamber Opera in One Act)” Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington St., Quincy.

Wednesday, February 16, 6:30 p.m., “Citizenship During the Civil War Era,” Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston.

Wednesday, February 23, 6:30 p.m., “A Man’s House is His Castle: The Legacy of James Otis,” Old State House Museum, Boston.

Thursday, February 24, 7:00 p.m., Dani Rodrik, “The Globalization Paradox,” Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Saturday, February 26, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., “Identity and the Art of the Middle Ages,” Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge.

MARCH

Thursday, March 3, 6:00 p.m., James Jennings, “Immigrants in Boston,” Registration required. Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon St., Boston.

# Saturday, March 5, 2:00 p.m., Bruce Ackerman, “The Decline and Fall of the American Republic,” Reservations requested. Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston.

# Saturday, March 5, 7:00 p.m., “Boston Massacre Reenactment”, 206 Washington St, Boston.

# Monday – Saturday, March – May 2011, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., “History Drawn with Light: Early Photographs from the MHS Collections,” Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston.

# Wednesday, March 9, 6:30 p.m., “Abolitionists, Nurses, and Writers: Boston Women During the Civil War,” Central Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston.

Thursday, March 10, 5:30 p.m., John D. Speth, “The Evolution of Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics?” Geological Lecture Hall, Peabody Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge.

Wednesday, March 16, 7:00 p.m., Mark Warren, “Fire in the Heart: White Activists for Racial Justice,” First Parish, 3 Church St., Cambridge.

Thursday, March 24, 5:15 p.m., “Athens or Anarchy? Soapbox Oratory and the Early Twentieth-Century American City,” Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston

Thursday, March 24, 6:00 p.m., Lowell Lecture Series: Ellen Goodman, Central Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston.

Wednesday, March 30, 6:30 p.m., “Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People,” Registration required. Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston.

APRIL

Wednesday, April 6, 5:30 p.m., Jim Kloppenberg, “Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition,” Reservations requested. Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston.

# Wednesday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., Benjamin Carp, “Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America,” Central Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston.

# Thursday, April 14, 5:15 p.m., “The Politics of Polygamy in Colonial North America,” Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston.

Thursday, April 14, 5:30 p.m., Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, “Excavating the Great Aztec Temple: Achievements and Perspectives,” Geological Lecture Hall, Peabody Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge.

Thursday, April 21, 5:30 p.m., “Engendering and Internationalizing the Long Black Freedom Struggle,” Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston

Thursday, April 28, 5:30 p.m., Barbara Fash, “The Preservation and Importance of Inscriptions,” Geological Lecture Hall, Peabody Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge.