Hands-On History Workshops

Are you curious about history? Do you want to delve deeper into a topic by discussing it with an expert? Would you like to examine the AAS collections firsthand? Then come join us for a Hands-On History Workshop.

These highly interactive workshops allow participants to partake in discussions with leading historians and explore a variety of historic images, newspapers, books, maps, and manuscripts from the AAS collections.

Upcoming Workshops

There are no upcoming Hands-On History Workshops at this time.

Previous Workshops

2019

Thursday, May 16, 2019, 6-9 p.m.
“Women’s Rights in Images, 1848–1876"
Guest Scholar: Allison Lange
Co-sponsored by the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC)
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2018

Thursday, November 8, 2018, 7-9 p.m.
“Roughing It Reimagined: A Musical Hands-On History Workshop"
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2017

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 6-9 p.m.
“Scientific Americans: The Art of Science in the New Nation"
Guest scholar: Gregory Nobles, Georgia Tech
Co-sponsored by the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) and the EcoTarium
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Thursday, May 11, 2017, 6-9 p.m.
“Medicine and Health in Early America"
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 6-9 p.m. (snow date of December 7)
“The Ghost of Christmas Present: The Transformation of Christmas in America"
Guest scholar: Stephen Nissenbaum
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2016

Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 6-9 p.m.
“Declaring Independence – Then and Now"
Lead scholars: Danielle Allen and Mary Babson Fuhrer
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Thursday, April 28, 2016, 6-9 p.m.
“Seeing the Civil War"
Lead scholar: Joshua Brown
Co-sponsored by the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC)
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 6-9 p.m.
"Hidden Histories: Finding Women's Stories in the Archives"
Lead scholar: Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In collaboration with the Public History Program at UMass Amherst
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Tuesday, November 17, 2016, 6-9 p.m.
"Hidden Histories: Finding Native American Stories in the Archives"
Lead scholar: Alice Nash, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In collaboration with the Public History Program at UMass Amherst
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2015

Thursday, June 11, 2015
“No Taxation Without Representation: How the Stamp Act Made America”
Lead scholar: Mary Babson Fuhrer
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2014

Saturday, March 29, 2014
“Suffragists, Teetotalers, and Abolitionists: Social Reform in the Nineteenth Century”
Lead scholar: Thomas Augst, New York University
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
“A Primer on Conducting Historical Research”
Lead scholar: Mary Fuhrer
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Saturday, May 10, 2014
“Exploring Johnny Tremain”
Lead scholar: Joan Rubin, University of Rochester
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
“A Primer on Conducting Historical Research”
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