Concord Museum to host 2 events to mark passage of 19th Amendment
As we mark the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, the Concord Museum will be offering two virtual programs about early women activists in Concord and Boston.
The first, Crusading Daughters of Boston and Concord, will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 11.
Join two scholars of the nineteenth century, Helen Desee and Sandra Petrulionis, as they discuss activist reformers of the Transcendentalist era such as Caroline Healey Dall and Mary Merrick Brooks who struggled, respectively, to promote women’s rights and to abolish slavery.
Desee is the Caroline Healey Dall editor for the Massachusetts Historical Society and a professor of English emerita at Tennessee Technological University. Her books include “Daughters of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth Century Woman-Caroline Healey Dall” and volumes in the Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall.
Petrulionis is a professor of English and American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, and the author of “To Set the World Right: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord.” She has also directed the National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institutes in Concord on “Transcendentalism and Reform in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau and Fuller.”
Participants will be emailed a link to watch the program live. The event is free but donations are encouraged to continue and support the Concord Museum’s Education initiatives.
For information and to register, visit https://concordmuseum.org
The second event, Laura Walls on the Women of the Thoreau Family, will be held from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 20.
Historian Laura Dassow Walls will discuss Henry David Thoreau’s mother, sisters,and aunts based on her book “Thoreau: A Life.”
Walls is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. The book gives a comprehensive biography of Thoreau in a generation, draws on extensive new research and the full range of Thoreau’s published and unpublished writings to present Thoreau as vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions, fully embedded in his place and time, yet speaking powerfully to the problems and perils of today.
Participants will be emailed a link to watch the program live. The event is free but donations are encouraged to continue and support the Concord Museum’s Education initiatives.
For information and to register, visit https://concordmuseum.org
Both of the above programs are supported in part by the Sally Lanagan Fund.
