Boston Athenæum
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Lisa Napoli, Ellen Clegg, & Margaret Low, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Founding Mothers of NPR"
November 22, 2021
In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, …
Peter S. Canellos and Farah Stockman, "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan"
November 22, 2021
They say that history is written by the victors. …
Louis Menand and Maya Jasanoff, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"
November 22, 2021
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It …
Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism"
July 09, 2021
When we talk about patriotism in America, we tend…
Akhil Reed Amar, "The Words that Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840"
July 02, 2021
When the US Constitution won popular approval in …
Martha S. Jones and Karen Holmes Ward, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers"
June 18, 2021
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began…
Robert Mrazek, "The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter"
June 18, 2021
When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few o…
Diana Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art"
June 18, 2021
Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking ble…
Don Hagist, "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution"
May 21, 2021
Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind …
Boston Art Song Society, "Art Songs of Black American Composers"
May 21, 2021
Guest baritone Emery Stephens and pianist Ann Sch
The Boston Athenæum, a membership library, first …
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