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September 2020

Monday, September 21
VIRTUAL EVENT: Conversation: God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday, September 17
VIRTUAL EVENT: Robert Henri & New Women: Reconsidering the “Ashcan” Circle
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday, September 10
VIRTUAL EVENT: Printcraft: The Art of Playing with Pictures in Nineteenth-Century America
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Monday, September 7
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)

August 2020

Thursday, August 27
VIRTUAL EVENT: Images in the Fight for Women’s Votes
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, August 26 to Friday, August 28
VIRTUAL Educator Workshop: Primary Sources in the Classroom
2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Wednesday, August 12
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask a Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday, August 6
VIRTUAL EVENT: Cameo Conversations: An Inside Look at Fiction, Journalism, and the Mysteries of Both!
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, August 4
VIRTUAL EVENT: Special Story Time: Casey at the Bat
11:00 am to 12:00 pm

July 2020

Thursday, July 23
VIRTUAL EVENT: Director's Coffee Hour
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, July 22
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday, July 16
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Biography of Resistance
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, July 14
VIRTUAL EVENT: Making Cyanotypes
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thursday, July 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: Hamilton: How the Musical Remixes American History
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm
Friday, July 3 to Saturday, July 4
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)

June 2020

Tuesday, June 30
VIRTUAL EVENT: Curator's Choice: (Anti)SUFFRAGE
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday, June 25
VIRTUAL EVENT: Cameo Conversation: Writing History
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Tuesday, June 23
VIRTUAL EVENT: Special Story Time: Little Red Riding Hood
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Tuesday, June 16
VIRTUAL EVENT: Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thursday, June 11
VIRTUAL EVENT: Cameo Conversations: The Writing Life
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, June 10
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, June 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: Member's Choice: Practical Purposes
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Thursday, June 4
POSTPONED: VIRTUAL EVENT: Cameo Conversation: An Inside Look at Fiction, Journalism, and the Mysteries of Both!
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Monday, June 1
VIRTUAL EVENT: Pride was a Riot: 50 Years of Protests, Celebrations and Pride in Boston
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

May 2020

Thursday, May 28
VIRTUAL EVENT: Cameo Conversation: Publishing before Publishing: The Case of the Ancient Library
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Wednesday, May 27
VIRTUAL EVENT: The Three-Cornered War: The Union, The Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Tuesday, May 26
VIRTUAL EVENT: Curator's Choice: The White Curtains
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thursday, May 21
VIRTUAL EVENT: Cameo Conversation: A Walk to the Next World
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, May 19
VIRTUAL EVENT: Curator's Choice: Little Nell
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Monday, May 18
VIRTUAL EVENT: The Annual Torrence C. Harder Lecture: The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, May 13
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, May 12
VIRTUAL EVENT: Caring for the Athenæum's Collections
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Monday, May 11 to Saturday, May 16
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Thursday, May 7
SOLD OUT: VIRTUAL EVENT: Royal Oak Lecture: Ciphers, Secrets, and Spies in the Elizabethan Age
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, May 6
VIRTUAL EVENT: Field Report: Boston Athenæum Fellow Eli Portman
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Tuesday, May 5
VIRTUAL EVENT: Caring for Your Collections
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

April 2020

Thursday, April 30
VIRTUAL TOUR: Inside the Athenæum
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thursday, April 30
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Wednesday, April 29
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Tuesday, April 28
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Monday, April 27
VIRTUAL EVENT: Curator's Choice: Venice Reflections
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Monday, April 27
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Saturday, April 25
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Friday, April 24
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Thursday, April 23
VIRTUAL EVENT: The Seed of an Idea: Growing a Seed Library at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thursday, April 23
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Wednesday, April 22
VIRTUAL EVENT: The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, From the Ancient World to the Modern Age
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, April 22
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Tuesday, April 21
VIRTUAL EVENT: Family Story Time
10:30 am
Monday, April 20
VIRTUAL EVENT: Curator's Choice: Edmonia Lewis
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

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