Hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society Call for ProposalsDeadline: 15 April 2026 LEARN MORE & APPLY The African American History Seminar invites proposals for sessions in its 2026-2027 series. The Seminar involves discussion of pre-circulated works in progress, especially article or chapter-length papers (20-30 pages), focusing on any aspect of African American history and culture from the … Continue reading Call for Proposals: African American History Seminar 2026-2027
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event Series | Metacom’s Resistance: Retelling King Philip’s War and Its Legacy, from 3/11/26
Hosted by Partnership of Historic Bostons Eight eye-opening events March-May 2026 LEARN MORE & REGISTER King Philip’s War: the least known but bloodiest conflict in American history. Its story has been told by colonial victors. Award-winning historians, tribal citizens and Indigenous scholars turn that story upside down, exploring the cost of this brutal war and … Continue reading Partnership of Historic Bostons Event Series | Metacom’s Resistance: Retelling King Philip’s War and Its Legacy, from 3/11/26
Call for Papers: Slavery North to host a conference on slavery and border crossing during the American Revolution
On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Slavery North invites proposals for papers that and experiences of the Revolutionary War. This call encourages new scholarship that reexamine the Revolutionary War through the experiences of enslaved people in British North America.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Suing Slavery: Essex County Freedom Suits, 1765-1783 on 6/12
With Jeanne Pickering Hosted by Partnership of Historic Bostons Thursday, June 12, 7:00-8:30 PM, Online REGISTER HERE On July 1, 1714, at the Brattle Street Church in Boston, two so-called “free Negroes,” Anthony Tyns and Armote, were married. Ten months later their daughter, Lydia, was born. We would pay little attention to their marriage except … Continue reading Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Suing Slavery: Essex County Freedom Suits, 1765-1783 on 6/12
Enslaved Legacy History Coalition Event | Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England on 6/11/25
With Dr. Gloria McCahon Whiting Hosted by the Slave Legacy History Coalition Wednesday, June 11, 2025 | 10:30-11:30 AM EST Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84763385655?pwd=cUU3dVlUa24vdHJHdTYxUHR1U2VCdz09Meeting ID: 847 6338 5655 Passcode: 294088 New England has long been seen as a cradle of liberty in American history, but it was also a cradle of slavery. From the earliest years of colonization, New Englanders … Continue reading Enslaved Legacy History Coalition Event | Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England on 6/11/25
ABB Event | Bounty Hunters in the Dawnland: Scalping and Kidnapping for Land and Currency >> tonight at 6 pm
This Wednesday, May 7 Dr. Mishy Lesser (Upstander Project co-founder and Emmy Award winning researcher) and Kristine Malpica (Upstander Project researcher and public historian) will join the Atlantic Black Box community to discuss the research and realities behind Bounty, a short filmic testimony of the resistance and survivance of Wabanaki People of the Dawnland.
Revolutionary Spaces Event | Rocking the Cradle Town Meeting on 5/24/25
Saturday, May 24, 2025 Doors Open: 5:20 PMTown Hall Begins: 5:30 PMTown Hall Concludes: 6:00 PMLocation: Old South Meeting HouseAdmission: Free REGISTER HERE In May 1854, a young man named Anthony Burns was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law, and the city—long a stronghold of abolitionist sentiment—erupted in protest. Thousands gathered to raise their voices, challenge the law, and debate … Continue reading Revolutionary Spaces Event | Rocking the Cradle Town Meeting on 5/24/25
Historic Deerfield Event | Engaging with the Legacies of Northern Slavery
Historic Deerfield is pleased to announce a one-day conference, “Engaging with the Legacies of Northern Slavery,” in collaboration with the Witness Stones Project to mark the completion of the second phase of installing 35 Witness Stones Memorials™ that honor the enslaved people who lived in the community.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Enslavement in a Puritan Village: An Untold Story on 3/26/25
In this talk for the Partnership of Historic Bostons, Jane Sciacca uncovers the story of Sudbury and Wayland (the two towns that resulted from the original Sudbury) and its enslaved people - how they lived, who dominated their lives, and how they struggled for freedom.
Slavery North Job & Fellowship Opportunities 2025-26
Slavery North has announced two unique fellowship opportunities for the 2025-26 academic year and two exciting job opportunities.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Signs, Stories, and Unravelling Myths on 1/29
Should historical towns change their signs and markers? Concord resident Joe Palumbo takes us on a tour of the real history of Concord, Massachusetts - a far cry from the romantic notion of the Puritan founding of 1635, Revolutionary War heroism, and the home of Henry David Thoreau, Emerson and Louisa May Alcott.
MHS Event | Boston to Guangzhou and Back: Perspectives and Legacy of the U.S.-China Trade, 1790-1850s on 2/18/25
This workshop explores the history of China-U.S. trade through a local lens, starting with the Early U.S. Republic and running through the Opium Wars.
Slave Legacy History Coalition Event | Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative: Progress to Date and the Year Ahead on 1/8/24
Hosted by the Slave Legacy History Coalition Wednesday, January 8, 202510:30-11:30 AM ESTOnline Dr. Sara Naomi BleichVice Provost for Special Projects, Harvard University Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative: Progress to Date and the Year Ahead Join Event Dr. Sara Bleich is the inaugural Vice Provost for Special Projects at Harvard University, Professor of Public … Continue reading Slave Legacy History Coalition Event | Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative: Progress to Date and the Year Ahead on 1/8/24
ABB Event | The Charter Generation: Enslavement of Native Americans in New England on 12/18/24
Join us next Wednesday as Dr. Margaret Ellen Newell of The Ohio State University's Department of History shares insights from her award-winning book Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | “Petition after Petition”: Boston’s Black Freemasons Fight for Freedom – tonight
In 1641 the Puritan commonwealth voted for the Body of Liberties and, in it, recognized inherent, natural rights for all free white men. Nearly 150 years later, Black Bostonians, members of the Freemasons' African Lodge No. 1 , petitioned the Massachusetts state government.
ABB Atlantic World Connections Event | Dr. Seth Rockman on Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery 10/23
The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’s how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early 19th century. But in doing so, we miss slavery’s long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South. Join us Wednesday for an introduction to Dr. Rockman's forthcoming book.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | A Nation in Balance: Sovereignty, Earth and the Meaning of Right Relation
Aquinnah Wampanoag citizen, educator and author Linda Coombs on how Native people saw sovereignty as the right relationship to the earth.
Imagine Studios Event | Newburyport’s 4th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day gathering on 10/14/24
Join Newburyport's 4th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Event, Monday October 14th, at Newburyport Waterfront Park
Walking Tour Event | Brookline’s Hidden History of Slavery and Freedom on 10/27/24
This lively 90-minute tour visits three sites to tell the history and stories of slavery and freedom in Brookline, MA.
Radcliffe Event | Black Lead: The Radical Black Roots of New England Liberalism on 10/16/24
Kerri K. Greenidge’s new book complicates the idea—propagated by white nationalists and accepted as fact by most liberal-leaning historians, scholars, and commentators—that New England is a predominantly white space in which African descended people and their communities have had little political effect.