Events for January 28, 2020 › Book Talk
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Michelle Marchetti Coughlin presents PLYMOUTH COLONY FIRST LADY PENELOPE WINSLOW: RECONSTRUCTING A LIFE THROUGH MATERIAL CULTURE at Boston Athenaeum
Registration is required Members Free and Non-members Free with admission ($10) Plymouth Colony First Lady Penelope Winslow: Reconstructing a Life through Material Culture with Michelle Marchetti Coughlin Penelope Pelham Winslow was a member of the English gentry (her third great-grandmother was Anne Boleyn's sister Mary) who was married to Plymouth Colony Governor Josiah Winslow. Although […]
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Jonathan Rosenberg presents DANGEROUS MELODIES: CLASSICAL MUSIC IN AMERICA FROM THE GREAT WAR TO THE COLD WAR at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes JONATHAN ROSENBERG—professor and author of How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam—for a discussion of his latest book, Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War. About Dangerous Melodies Dangerous Melodies vividly […]
Find out more »P. Carl presents BECOMING A MAN: THE STORY OF A TRANSITION at Trident Booksellers & Cafe
About the Book Becoming a Man is the striking memoir of P. Carl’s journey to become the man he always knew himself to be. For fifty years, he lived as a girl and a queer woman, building a career, a life, and a loving marriage, yet still waiting to realize himself in full. As Carl embarks […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.