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Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

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The Black Community in Colonial Dorchester and Boston

Carla Schwartz: Poetry, Avante-garde Piano, Shadow Puppets on Video

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Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture: Authors Discuss Journey from Page to Screen

Opening of the First South End Library Window Take-over

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Emerson College WLP Publishing Speakers Series: Words Onscreen, the Fate of Reading in a Digital World

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Pangyrus Poetry Reading

Craft on Draft

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Quincy Carroll, author of “Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside”

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Tony Award winner ‘ART’ by Yasmina Reza presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston

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“Writing a Novel They Can’t Put Down!” with James Scott Bell

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History Matters series – Race, Revivalism and the Making of a Religious Icon: Inventing George Whitefield

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On the Job: Ancestors Who Worked in the Public Sector and the Amazing Records They Left Behind

Tribute to C.D. Wright

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FREE Brown Bag Lunch Writing Series

The Citizen Poets of Boston A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789–1820 Book Launch

Poetry with Jennifer Barber & Lisa Sewell

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We’ll Fight Again Tomorrow: Panel Discussion of Nir Eisikovits’s “A Theory of Truces”

Book Discussion: “The First House: A Memoir of Mom, Berkeley, and Beyond”

Transitional Justice Thinking: Tools or Principles?

Articulations of America

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“Where I Am From” Story Slam

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Rebecca Kaiser Gibson Reads from Opinel: Poems

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Securing Freedom During and After the Civil War

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Boston’s Market District and Haymarket: Yesterday and Today

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Grub Gone… Drag

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.