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January 2021
Tuesday, January 26
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Monday, January 25
VIRTUAL EVENT: Director's Coffee Hour with Members
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Thursday, January 21
VIRTUAL EVENT: Lecture: Introducing the Harriet Hayden Albums: A Social History of Photography, Agency & Identity in Late 19th Century Boston
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Tuesday, January 19
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Thursday, January 14
VIRTUAL EVENT: Conversation: A Bookstore of One's Own: The Making of Persephone Books
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Saturday, January 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: Art and Architecture Tour
10:00 am
to
11:00 am
Friday, January 1
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
December 2020
Thursday, December 31
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Thursday, December 24
to
Saturday, December 26
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Thursday, December 17
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, December 16
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Money Plot
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Monday, December 14
VIRTUAL EVENT: Curator's Choice: Crompton’s Loom and New England’s Textile Boom
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Saturday, December 12
VIRTUAL EVENT: Art and Architecture Tour
10:00 am
to
11:00 am
Thursday, December 10
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Wednesday, December 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, December 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Monday, December 7
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Saturday, December 5
VIRTUAL EVENT: Holiday Pop-up Book Shop
10:00 am
to
11:00 am
Thursday, December 3
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, December 2
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
November 2020
Thursday, November 26
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Wednesday, November 25
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Tuesday, November 24
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Monday, November 23
EARLY CLOSING
3:00 pm
Wednesday, November 18
VIRTUAL EVENT: Eye of the Expert: Views of Boston
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 18
VIRTUAL EVENT: #AskAConservator on Facebook Live
11:00 am
Tuesday, November 17
VIRTUAL EVENT: Curator's Choice: N.C. Wyeth’s Mr. Alcott in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston (1936)
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Monday, November 16
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Saturday, November 14
VIRTUAL EVENT: Art and Architecture Tour
10:00 am
to
11:00 am
Thursday, November 12
VIRTUAL EVENT: Lecture: In this Place: Reflections on the African American Trail Project
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 11
VIRTUAL EVENT: Performance: Working Women: Songs of Suffering and Suffrage
7:00 pm
to
8:00 pm
Wednesday, November 11
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Tuesday, November 10
VIRTUAL EVENT: Member's Choice: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Reputation: the Story of Henry K. Hadley and the ‘Boston School’
6:30 pm
to
7:30 pm
Tuesday, November 10
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Thursday, November 5
VIRTUAL EVENT: Belvoir Castle: A Family Home for 1000 Years
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Tuesday, November 3
Early Closure
5:00 pm
October 2020
Thursday, October 29
VIRTUAL EVENT: Member Meet & Greet
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, October 28
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Tuesday, October 27
VIRTUAL EVENT: Conversation: Women's Agency and the Meaning of Home: Displacement and Power During Political Turmoil
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Monday, October 26
VIRTUAL EVENT: Field Report: Boston Athenæum Fellow Michael Feinberg
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
Thursday, October 22
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, October 21
VIRTUAL EVENT: Eye of the Expert: Views of Boston
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, October 14
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: This is What Democracy Looked Like
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, October 14
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Monday, October 12
VIRTUAL EVENT: Dawnland and Dear Georgina Online Film Screening + Live Filmmaker Q&A
8:00 pm
to
10:00 pm
Thursday, October 8
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: A Supreme Fête
5:00 pm
to
6:00 pm
Thursday, October 1
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
September 2020
Wednesday, September 30
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: 12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Wednesday, September 23
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
6:00 pm
to
7:00 pm
Tuesday, September 22
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of WWII
12:00 pm
to
1:00 pm
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