by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 11, 2024
The talk focuses on selected people and events, including Galileo, Hobbes, Darwin, Lysenkoism, the Scopes trial and a couple of more recent landmark court cases relating to science and medicine. Initially, it will consider some thoughts of the Ancient Greeks...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 14, 2024 | Announcements, Events, Photographs
Every election year brings challenges, surprises and some stand-out personalities. The 2024 Athenæum Lecture Series focuses in on electoral issues and people of importance to the electoral process, including the voter. As first in the nation, New Hampshire’s...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 14, 2022 | Announcements, Events
Portsmouth Athenaeum 2022 Lecture Series Portsmouth, NH: Evolution 1623-2023 The territory of coastal New Hampshire, first inhabited by the Abenaki and other Algonquian languages-speaking nations, was first explored and written about by Martin Pring in 1603....
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 13, 2022 | Announcements, Events
Portsmouth Athenaeum 2022 Lecture Series Portsmouth, NH: Evolution 1623-2023 The territory of coastal New Hampshire, first inhabited by the Abenaki and other Algonquian languages-speaking nations, was first explored and written about by Martin Pring in 1603....
