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.
Crusading Daughters of Boston and Concord
Join two distinguished scholars of the nineteenth century, Helen Desee and Sandra Petrulionis, at 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. Helen Desee is the author of Daughters of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth Century Woman- Caroline Healey Dall. Sandra Petrulionis is the author of To Set This World Right: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord.
Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is a Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Altoona, and the author of To Set the World Right: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. She has also directed National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes in Concord on “Transcendentalism and Reform in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller.”
Helen 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 Daughter of Boston and volumes in the Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall.
This virtual event will take place on August 11, 2020, 7 pm to 8 pm. Please register on www.concordmuseum.org Participants will be emailed a link to watch the program live on Tuesday, August 11.
This event is free, but donations are encouraged to support the Concord Museum’s Education initiatives.
Laura Walls on the Women of the Thoreau Family
As we mark the centennial of the of the 19th Amendment, historian Laura Dassow Walls will discuss Henry David Thoreau’s mother, sisters, and aunts based on her book, Thoreau: A Life which the late Robert Richardson described as “the best all-around biography of Thoreau ever written.”
Laura Dassow Walls is a Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life (Chicago University Press, 2017). This book, the first full length, 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biography of Thoreau in a generation, draws on extensive new research and the full range of Thoreau’s published and unpublished writings to present Thoreau as vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions – fully embedded in his place and time, yet speaking powerfully to the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.
This event will take place on August 20, 2020, 7 pm to 8 pm. Please register on www.concordmuseum.org and participants will be sent a link on August 20th.
This event is free, but donations are encouraged to help support the Concord Museum’s Education initiatives.
Both of the above programs are supported in part by the Sally Lanagan Fund.
