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February 2021

Thursday, February 18
VIRTUAL EVENT: Art and Architecture Tour
5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Wednesday, February 17
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, February 16
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, February 16
VIRTUAL EVENT: Up Close Tour: Carvings and Quandaries
5:00 pm to 5:45 pm
Saturday, February 13
VIRTUAL EVENT: Art and Architecture Tour
10:00 am to 10:45 am
Interior of Boston Athenæum
Thursday, February 11
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday, February 11
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Tuesday, February 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Monday, February 8
VIRTUAL EVENT: PRESENTATION: Curator's Choice: Will You Be My Valentine?
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thursday, February 4
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, February 3
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

January 2021

Thursday, January 28
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, January 27
VIRTUAL EVENT: Lecture: The Implications of Blackness in Birth of a Nation
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, January 27
VIRTUAL Up Close Tour: Athena at the Athenæum
11:00 am to 11:30 am
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
12:00 am

December 2020

Thursday, December 31
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
Thursday, December 24 to Saturday, December 26
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
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
Interior of Boston Athenæum
Wednesday, December 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: Ask the Librarian Conversations
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday, December 9
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
"The Zealot and the Emancipator" book cover
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
"Smallest Lights in the Universe" book cover
Thursday, December 3
VIRTUAL EVENT: Book Talk: The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
"The Book Collector" book cover
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
12:00 am
Wednesday, November 25
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
Tuesday, November 24
BUILDING CLOSED
12:00 am
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
Conservators in the BA lab
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
Interior of Boston Athenæum
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

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