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Upcoming Events

April

Monday, April 19
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Tuesday, April 20
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Detail of a painting with two Black adults and two Black children in the foreground.
Tuesday, April 20
VIRTUAL TOUR: Up Close: Artist-Reporter Allan Rohan Crite
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Wednesday, April 21
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Library reading room vaulted ceiling and, nooks formed from bookstacks, and an arched floor-to-ceiling window in each nook.
Thursday, April 22
VIRTUAL EVENT: Art and Architecture Tour
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Three women huddle together to study material laid out on a foam wedge on a table.
Monday, April 26
VIRTUAL EVENT: Civic Learning Week Open House for Educators
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Free and open to the public
Details of painted portraits of John Marshall and Daniel Webster by Chester Harding.
Wednesday, April 28
VIRTUAL EVENT: Up Close Tour: Two Giants
11:00 am to 11:45 am
This event is open to the public
Wednesday, April 28
VIRTUAL EVENT: PRESENTATION: Eye of the Expert: Buttons and Bows
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Thursday, April 29
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public

May

Thursday, May 6
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Library reading room vaulted ceiling and, nooks formed from bookstacks, and an arched floor-to-ceiling window in each nook.
Saturday, May 8
VIRTUAL TOUR: Art and Architecture
10:00 am to 11:00 am
This event is open to the public
Monday, May 10
VIRTUAL EVENT: HARDER ENDOWED LECTURE: Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Three seaweed samples on white cards.
Tuesday, May 11
VIRTUAL EVENT: PRESENTATION: Curator's Choice: Seaweed, or Flowers of the Ocean
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Wednesday, May 12
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: The Words that Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Tuesday, May 18
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Painted portrait of Horatio Greenough next to black and white engraved portrait of Thomas Crawford.
Tuesday, May 18
VIRTUAL TOUR: Up Close: Carvings and Quandaries
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Wednesday, May 19
VIRTUAL EVENT: PANEL DISCUSSION: Confronting Racial Injustice: The War on Drugs in Massachusetts: The Racial Impact of the School Zone Law and Other Mandatory Minimum Sentences
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Library reading room vaulted ceiling and, nooks formed from bookstacks, and an arched floor-to-ceiling window in each nook.
Thursday, May 20
VIRTUAL TOUR: Art and Architecture
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Thursday, May 20
VIRTUAL EVENT: BOOK TALK: Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Oil paintings of a path through a forest with clouds in a blue sky.
Tuesday, May 25
VIRTUAL EVENT: PRESENTATION: Curator's Choice: Kentucky Beech Forest
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
This event is open to the public
A group of people stand in a lobby in front of a bronze statue of Athena.
Wednesday, May 26
VIRTUAL TOUR: Up Close: Athena at the Athenaeum
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Monday, May 31
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)

June

Library reading room vaulted ceiling and, nooks formed from bookstacks, and an arched floor-to-ceiling window in each nook.
Saturday, June 12
VIRTUAL TOUR: Art and Architecture
10:00 am to 11:00 am
This event is open to the public
Detail of a painting with two Black adults and two Black children in the foreground.
Tuesday, June 15
VIRTUAL TOUR: Up Close Tour: Artist-Reporter Allan Rohan Crite
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Library reading room vaulted ceiling and, nooks formed from bookstacks, and an arched floor-to-ceiling window in each nook.
Thursday, June 17
VIRTUAL TOUR: Art and Architecture
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
This event is open to the public
Painted portrait of Horatio Greenough next to black and white engraved portrait of Thomas Crawford.
Wednesday, June 23
VIRTUAL TOUR: Up Close: Carvings and Quandaries
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
This event is open to the public

July

Monday, July 5
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Two women and a man huddle around an open book on a table.
Tuesday, July 13 to Thursday, July 15
Educator Workshop: Primary Sources in the Classroom
6:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This event is open to the public

September

Monday, September 6
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)

November

Wednesday, November 24
EARLY CLOSING
1:00 pm
Thursday, November 25
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)

December

Friday, December 24 to Saturday, December 25
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)
Friday, December 31
BUILDING CLOSED
(All day)