Boston Athenæum
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Boston Art Song Society, "Art Songs of Black American Composers"
May 21, 2021
Guest baritone Emery Stephens and pianist Ann Sch
Emma Smith and Stephen Greenblatt, "This is Shakespeare"
May 21, 2021
A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsu…
Ralph Keyes, "The Hidden History of Coined Words"
May 21, 2021
Successful word-coinages—those that stay in curre…
Annalee Newitz and Sarah Parcak, "Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age"
May 21, 2021
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist…
Jamal Greene and Randall Kennedy, "How Rights Went Wrong"
April 16, 2021
Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Ye…
Janice P. Nimura, "The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women"
April 16, 2021
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age th…
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America"
April 09, 2021
Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award …
John Matteson and Amy Cherry, "A Worse Place Than Hell: How Fredericksburg Changed a Nation"
March 12, 2021
December 1862 drove the United States toward a br…
Bettye Kearse, "The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family"
March 12, 2021
For thousands of years, West African griots (men)…
Robert Darnton and John Buchtel, "Pirating and Publishing"
March 12, 2021
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers i…
The Boston Athenæum, a membership library, first …
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