Announcements | Portsmouth Athenaeum

The Case Against Sambo

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 23, 2019 | Announcements, Manuscripts

By James Smith, photographic collections manager This past week marked the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans brought to the English colonies. These “20. and odd Negroes” landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, where they were traded for...

“By the Bottle or the Barrel” Exhibit Talks

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 16, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Saturday, Aug. 17, 201911 a.m.Randall Gallery Sandra Rux, co-curator of the exhibit By the Bottle or the Barrel: 400 Years of Brewing in Portsmouth, will give a gallery talk. UPCOMING LECTURES: Thursday, Sept. 5, 20197 p.m.Join both Tad Baker, professor of history at...

Reminder Tomorrow: Gallery Talk Collecting Our LGBTQ+ Stories

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 14, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Saturday, June 15, 2019 11 a.m. Randall Gallery On Saturday, June 15, Holly R. Cashman, associate professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire, will talk about the oral history project she is conducting in the NH Seacoast LGBTQ+...

Athenaeum Receives $50,000 Grant

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 14, 2019 | Announcements

Exciting news! The Athenaeum has again landed a federal grant to complete the final step in our plan to improve environmental conditions for our museum and library collections. The $50,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will fund...

June New Books

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 10, 2019 | Announcements, Library

June is busting with new books at the Athenaeum! Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: June New Books 2019

Temperance in Portsmouth

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 17, 2019 | Announcements, Manuscripts

By Athenaeum Archivist Susan Kindstedt Alcohol consumption has always been a part of America’s history. In the early years of colonial settlement, alcohol was consumed with most meals by all members of the family as it was believed to be safer than water....