Programs

Public Programs

• Tuesday, April 3, 6-8 p.m.
  Third Annual Adopt-A-Book Evening

  See books, pamphlets, newspapers, prints and other items that have found a home at AAS and make a contribution to help the library take in other waifs and strays. AAS curators will give a brief overview of what they buy and why.

• Thursday, April 19
  Philip Gura
  

When the AAS was founded in 1812, and for much of the nineteenth century, most educated men and women took an interest in history as one of the obligations of being citizens in the American republic. As the writing and teaching of history became increasingly professionalized and specialized in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, gaps developed between academic historians and the general public.

As one of the few American learned societies whose membership rolls include a substantial proportion of lay people as well as scholars, AAS is committed to help bring the work of American historians before the general public--to connect scholars and citizens, in other words. AAS public programs spotlight the work not only of historians but also of creative and performing artists and writers who have performed research at the Society.

Programs include a wide variety of events, including lectures, book discussions, theatrical and musical presentations, and film showings. Some of these public programs reach wider audiences by being taped for presentation of National Public Radio and on the weekend Book TV programming of the national cable network C-SPAN 2.

Attend a public program and earn 2 WOO points. More about the WOO card

For a complete listing of upcoming events at AAS, please view our calendar

Seating at public programs is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and we encourage you to arrive early to claim a seat. Programs start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

For further information about our public programs, contact James David Moran at jmoran[at]mwa.org or call our main number at 508-755-5221

Directions to Antiquarian Hall

The American Antiquarian Society is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency that supports public programs in the arts, humanities, and sciences.

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