Historical Talks/Presentations
Culturally Curious: Northern Renaissance Painting
Virtual MAThe Medford Public Library continues its monthly eight-part Zoom series on art appreciation with Jane Oneail, the founder of Culturally Curious, an arts education consulting firm specializing in art appreciation programs. Today's session is "Sacred Symbols and Devilish Details: Northern Renaissance Painting from Campin to Bosch." Jane Oneail holds a master’s in art history from …
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The Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Virtual MAThe Medford Historical Society & Museum is co-sponsoring an online program on the the Massachusetts 54th Regiment presented by Shawn Quigley, National Park Ranger at the Boston African American National Historic Site. In May 1863 the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first African American regiments to fight for the Union during the Civil War, marched …
Remembering Belinda Sutton: Resistance, Activism, and Reparations
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAIn honor of this Black History Month's theme of Black Resistance, the Royall House & Slave Quarters is hosting a reading and discussion of Belinda Sutton's 1783 pension petition. In her 1783 petition to the Massachusetts General Court, Sutton recounted her life story and claimed a pension from the estate of Isaac Royall Jr. Her …
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Culturally Curious: Impressionist Painting
Virtual MAThe Medford Public Library continues its monthly eight-part Zoom series on art appreciation with Jane Oneail, the founder of Culturally Curious, an arts education consulting firm specializing in art appreciation programs. Today's session is "Parisian Cafes and Impressionist Painting." Jane Oneail holds a master’s in art history from Boston University and a master’s in education from …
Hidden Figures and Other Women of NASA
Virtual MAThe Medford Public Library invites you to celebrate Women’s History Month with the online program "Hidden Figures and Other Women of NASA." Explore the lives of the many women who made their dreams of careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics come true at NASA, and who have been an essential part of the space program …
History Book Group: Blood and Ivy
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe History Book Group, co-sponsored by the Medford Public Library and Medford Historical Society & Museum, continues it True Crime Series with a meeting to discuss "Blood and Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard," by Paul Collins. Nancy Denise White will lead the discussion. Register through the library's online calendar.
War in Ukraine: What’s Next?
Medford Senior Center 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MAThe Medford Senior Center presents Henry Quinlan giving a presentation on the war in Ukraine titled, “Consequences Expected and Unexpected: What’s Next?” He will examine the origins of the war, the status of the war today, options for ending it, and discuss whether America is fighting a proxy war. Quinlan has more than 35 years …
Getting to Know Amelia Earhart
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Medford Historical Society & Museum presents “Getting to Know Amelia Earhart” in Bonsignore Hall at the Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library. The program will feature an inside perspective on the onetime Medford resident aviator from Medford School Committee member Melanie McLaughlin, who was the associate producer on the PBS American Experience Amelia …
Murder at Harvard Medical School
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Medford Historical Society & Museum presents a talk by Dennis J. Curran, a retired justice from the Massachusetts Superior Court, on the 1850 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case Commonwealth v. Webster. This case, about the murder of Boston physician George Parkman at Harvard Medical School, established the legal principal “proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” …
Teaching White Supremacy: A Conversation with Donald Yacovone
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House and Slave Quarters presents an evening with historian Donald Yacovone, author of "Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity." In the book, Yacovone shows the clear evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated roots in our nation's educational system through an in-depth examination of America's wide assortment of …
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