Ranked #1
Charles Spencer, "Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I"
Charles Spencer, "Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I"
February 26, 2015 at the Boston Athenæum.Killers of the King tells the shocking stories—including the fascinating fates—... Read more
17 Aug 2015
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47mins
Ranked #2
Emily Bazelon and Adam J. Foss, “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution”
Emily Bazelon and Adam J. Foss, “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution”
April 29, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum. Join us for a conversation with two leading voices in the movement to bring about... Read more
30 May 2019
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55mins
Ranked #3
Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman, "John Singer Sargent and His Muse: Painting Love and Loss"
Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman, "John Singer Sargent and His Muse: Painting Love and Loss"
June 11, 2015 at the Boston Athenæum.Learn more about this American artist by joining Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman ... Read more
31 Jul 2015
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48mins
Ranked #4
Nancy Seasholes, “The Atlas of Boston History”
Nancy Seasholes, “The Atlas of Boston History”
February 26, 2020 at the Boston Athenæum.Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston’... Read more
28 Feb 2020
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43mins
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Ranked #5
Robert Kuttner, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?”
Robert Kuttner, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?”
April 26, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum.Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a heal... Read more
27 Apr 2018
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32mins
Ranked #6
Grace Talusan and Elif Armbruster, “The Body Papers: A Memoir”
Grace Talusan and Elif Armbruster, “The Body Papers: A Memoir”
March 3, 2020 at the Boston Athenæum.Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England... Read more
17 Mar 2020
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41mins
Ranked #7
Nathaniel Philbrick, “In the Hurricane's Eye”
Nathaniel Philbrick, “In the Hurricane's Eye”
December 3, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum.In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had ... Read more
6 Dec 2018
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41mins
Ranked #8
Jean Findlay, "Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator"
Jean Findlay, "Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator"
May 14, 2015 at the Boston Athenæum.Since 1922, English-language readers have been able to leap into the prose of Proust... Read more
4 Aug 2015
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41mins
Ranked #9
David J. Silverman, “This Land is Their Land”
David J. Silverman, “This Land is Their Land”
November 19, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum.Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, historian David J. Si... Read more
22 Nov 2019
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59mins
Ranked #10
Daniel Breen, "The Unkempt Bibliomaniac of Tremont Street: William Shaw and Federalist Boston"
Daniel Breen, "The Unkempt Bibliomaniac of Tremont Street: William Shaw and Federalist Boston"
November 8, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum.In the precarious first decades of the Boston Athenæum, no one did more to keep ... Read more
5 Dec 2018
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37mins
Ranked #11
Austen Barron Bailly, "Thomas Hart Benton and the Modern American Woman"
Austen Barron Bailly, "Thomas Hart Benton and the Modern American Woman"
July 13, 2015 at the Boston Athenæum.In Thomas Hart Benton and the Modern American Woman, Austen Bailly will speak about... Read more
31 Jul 2015
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56mins
Ranked #12
James B. Conroy, “Jefferson’s White House: Monticello on the Potomac”
James B. Conroy, “Jefferson’s White House: Monticello on the Potomac”
October 31, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum. As the first president to occupy the White House for an entire term, Thomas Jef... Read more
1 Nov 2019
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #13
Stephen Greenblatt, “Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics”
Stephen Greenblatt, “Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics”
October 22, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed ... Read more
15 Nov 2018
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43mins
Ranked #14
Sonia Purnell, "A Woman of No Importance"
Sonia Purnell, "A Woman of No Importance"
April 11, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum. This lecture is in conjunction with the Royal Oak Foundation.In 1942, the Gestapo... Read more
15 Aug 2019
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #15
Jessie Morgan-Owens, “Girl in Black and White”
Jessie Morgan-Owens, “Girl in Black and White”
March 22, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-... Read more
17 May 2019
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36mins
Ranked #16
Giles Milton,Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare:The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Giles Milton,Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare:The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
February 28, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum.In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its pur... Read more
2 Mar 2018
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45mins
Ranked #17
Christian Di Spigna, “Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren”
Christian Di Spigna, “Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren”
May 28, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum.A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patrio... Read more
30 May 2019
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49mins
Ranked #18
Rabbi Dan Judson, Dr. Lorna Rivera. Rajini Srikanth, and Sarah Turner, “Community Conversations”
Rabbi Dan Judson, Dr. Lorna Rivera. Rajini Srikanth, and Sarah Turner, “Community Conversations”
February 5, 2020 at the Boston Athenæum.To demonstrate the variety and richness of “essential knowledge” and the ways it... Read more
7 Feb 2020
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40mins
Ranked #19
Robert Shiller, “The Transformation of the American Dream”
Robert Shiller, “The Transformation of the American Dream”
February 15, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum. In his 1931 book The Epic of America James Truslow Adams first popularized the... Read more
1 Mar 2018
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45mins
Ranked #20
Karen Abbott, “The Ghosts of Eden Park”
Karen Abbott, “The Ghosts of Eden Park”
October 24, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum.In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name,... Read more
25 Oct 2019
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49mins
