Atlantic Black Box Connecticut, Events, Maine, Massachusetts, New England States, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont

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

Atlantic Black Box Connecticut, Events, Maine, Massachusetts, New England States, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont

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. 

Atlantic Black Box Events, New England States

Upstander event | How NOT to Make Films: 15 years of failures, mishaps and lessons learned on 6/13

In 2024, as Upstander Project celebrates its 15th year, the crew is attempting to walk the walk by getting vulnerable and honest about their own shortcomings and missteps along the way. The hope is that by practicing the transparency and openness they so frequently teach about, they can continue on their lifelong journey as aspiring upstanders and allies.

Atlantic Black Box Events, Massachusetts, New England States

ABB Speaker Series Event | Nantucket: Place of Enslavement and Refuge from Slavery on 3/27/24

Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Atlantic World Connections Online Speaker Series Wednesday, March 27, 2024 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm Register here ABB's Atlantic World Connections speaker series continues with a conversation between researchers Frances Karttunen and Barbara Ann White on Nantucket as a place of both enslavement and refuge from slavery. Local researchers Frances Karttunen and Barbara … Continue reading ABB Speaker Series Event | Nantucket: Place of Enslavement and Refuge from Slavery on 3/27/24

Atlantic Black Box Call for Participants, Events, Online Learning

Call for Applications | NMAAHC Ethical Interpretation Workshop – June 2024

Hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture Offered annually, the Ethical Interpretation Workshop provides technical training for museum professionals on interpretive theory and ethical practice. The program addresses histories of oppressed people whose experiences have been historically ignored and misrepresented and does so by recognizing their individuality, achievements, and challenges. Ethical Interpretation centers the critical importance of collaboration with the … Continue reading Call for Applications | NMAAHC Ethical Interpretation Workshop – June 2024

Atlantic Black Box Events, Massachusetts, New England States

ABB Event Today | From the Margins: Massachusetts in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644-1865 at 4pm

Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Atlantic World Connections Speaker Series Featuring Dr. Sean M. KelleyProfessor in the Department of History, University of Essex Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET on zoom Register here A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred … Continue reading ABB Event Today | From the Margins: Massachusetts in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644-1865 at 4pm

Atlantic Black Box Events, Massachusetts, New England States

ABB Speaker Series Launch with Dr. Sean Kelley on Massachusetts in the Slave Trade on 2/28 at 4pm

Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Atlantic World Connections Speaker Series FROM THE MARGINS Massachusetts in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644-1865 Presented by Dr. Sean M. KelleyProfessor in the Department of History, University of Essex Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET on zoom Register here A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the … Continue reading ABB Speaker Series Launch with Dr. Sean Kelley on Massachusetts in the Slave Trade on 2/28 at 4pm

Atlantic Black Box Events

Zocalo Event Tonight | How Does Confronting Our History Build a Better Future?

Hosted by Zócalo/Mellon Foundation Event Series EVENT: LOS ANGELES IN-PERSON | STREAMING ONLINE Friday, October 27, 2023, 7:00 PM PDT How Does Confronting Our History Build a Better Future? Moderated by William Sturkey, University of Pennsylvania Historian and Hattiesburg Author REGISTER HERE Recent attempts to confront difficult history have exposed major divisions over memory in the United States. … Continue reading Zocalo Event Tonight | How Does Confronting Our History Build a Better Future?

Atlantic Black Box Events, Online Learning, Research methods

Online course | Radical Genealogy: research skills for liberatory ancestral recovery 6/17 & 6/25

Online Training with White Awake Saturday, June 17 and Sunday, June 254-6:30pm ET (1-3:30pm PT)Suggested $50-175 registration feeNo one turned away for lack of funds Click here to register   Sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is not mandatory.  Facilitator: David Dean  “The more I study history, the more I seem to findthat in every generation there were … Continue reading Online course | Radical Genealogy: research skills for liberatory ancestral recovery 6/17 & 6/25

Atlantic Black Box Events, Massachusetts

Event | Conversations on the Commons: Taking History Across Town

Collaborations between historical societies, libraries, and schools Hosted by the Massachusetts History Alliance Friday, September 24, 2021 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT Register here Join us for a conversation about collaborations across town. What do you do, and how well does it work? What does not work? Join our panelists, Sabrina Kaplan, Outreach … Continue reading Event | Conversations on the Commons: Taking History Across Town

Atlantic Black Box Events, Maine

Event | Interacting with Wabanaki Maine History on 11/14

Hosted by Maine Wabanaki REACH November 14, 2021 at 2:00 PM This program is a two hour  interactive experience in which we engage in a story of particular events in the history of 400-years of colonization of Wabanaki people by Europeans in this territory now called the state of Maine. This highly engaging experience requires … Continue reading Event | Interacting with Wabanaki Maine History on 11/14

Meadow Dibble Events, Maine

Event: A People’s (Virtual) Walking Tour of Portland

With Atlantic Black Box Education Coordinator Seth Goldstein Lunch & Learn @ Maine Conservation Voters Friday, August 21, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.Register here Seth Goldstein, Professor at the Maine College of Art, will join Maine Conservation Voters for their Lunch & Learn series to present “A People’s (Virtual) Walking Tour of Portland.” Professor … Continue reading Event: A People’s (Virtual) Walking Tour of Portland