2023 Lecture Series: Before “Live Free or Die”: The Wentworth Oligarchy 1715-1775 with Sandra Rux
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom From April through July in our Randall Gallery, the Athenaeum’s Exhibits Committee features the Wentworth family developed by historian Sandra Rux. As a complement to the exhibition, Ms. Rux...From the Mouth of Babes
By Tom Hardiman, Keeper and Executive Director Over the past couple of weeks, Proprietor Ellen Fineberg and I gave tours of the 1805 building to twenty groups of Portsmouth 3rd graders. Telling the kids about our history is always fun, rewarding, and exhausting! I...“Advances in Understanding and Treating Disease in the 19th Century with Lessons That Still Resonate” with Fred Schubert
Thursday, June 15, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library Science educator and Proprietor Dr. Fred Schubert will give a talk on “Advances in Understanding and Treating Disease in the 19th Century with Lessons That Still Resonate.” In 1800, the world...Author Tom Curren’s “All Join Hands” Book Talk with Proprietor Peter Randall
Thursday, May 25, 2023 5: 30 p.m. Sawtelle Reading Room Join Peter Randall, publisher and photographer, in conversation with author Tom Curren about his new book All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman & the New England Country Dance Tradition. All Join Hands is a...2023 Lecture Series: An Abundance of Cod: Fueling the New World with Ann Beattie
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library In her talk May 17 on An Abundance of Cod: Fueling the New World, Ann Beattie will take you a step back in time to the early 17th century when Europeans began to sail to the New World and carry home tales...Events Calendar
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