People of Concord Summer Lecture Series: “Such a dusky orb”: African American Presence and the Landscapes of Concord
July 19 @7:00 pm Join Robbins House Advisor Dr. Lois Brown at the Concord Museum for a talk about the…
Slavery By Another Name screening
Celebrate Black History Month with a PBS Film & The Very Latest Research on Concord’s African American History – Presented…
Slavery By Another Name screening
Celebrate Black History Month with a PBS Film & The Very Latest Research on Concord’s African American History – Presented…
Politics, Money, and Anarchy: Historic House Museums
Humanities Director Elon Cook participates in NY panel, “Politics, Money, and Anarchy: Historic House Museums”
Thursday, January 14th, Robbins House Humanities Director, Elon Cook, took part in a panel discussing the best ways to ensure long-term stewardship of historic house museums.
The Robbins House Named a Top End-of-Year Heritage Giving Recommendation
“The Robbins House in Concord might be small, but it packs a wallop of an interpretive punch.”
– Taylor Stoermer, Public History Professor, Harvard University Museum Studies Program
Imagining life as a black woman in 1840 Concord
Nov. 19, 2015 | CONCORD
By Jim Callahan
The Robbins House is a Concord, Mass.-based nonprofit organization focused on revealing the little known African American history of Concord and its regional and national importance. Articles about the Robbins House, its history and the personalities associated with that history, along with events currently taking place at the Robbins House, will appear from time to time in the Concord Journal.
Concord nonprofit receives $100K grant for African American history, educational programs
Nov. 19, 2015 | CONCORD
The Robbins House, a nonprofit focused on the African American history of Concord, was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant, which will be used to create interpretive and educational programs, requires a 1:1 cost share match by the Robbins House, whose funds are raised through contributions.
Thoreau Annual Gathering Presentation
Friday July 10, 9-10:30 am Thoreau’s Sense of Place Speaker: Kendra Taira Field, Tufts Assist Prof of History & Africana…
Thoreau Annual Gathering Presentation
Friday July 10, 9-10:30 am Thoreau’s Sense of Place Speaker: Kendra Taira Field, Tufts Assist Prof of History & Africana…
Reading Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass’s fiery 1852 speech “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro” Guy Peartree, re-enactor, leads a…
