The Thoreau Society Virtual Annual Gathering – Featuring Keynote Speaker Ibram X. Kendi Interviewed by The Robbins House’s Maria Madison July 10th • 4-5 pm Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics July 7-11 • Regular Registration Fee: $250 • Student Registration Fee: $100 Register here
August 2-6 • Concord Academy The Walden Woods Young Writers Workshop is a program for committed aspiring writers in 9th–12th grades. Over one week each summer, writers participate in daily lectures, immersive creative writing workshops, manuscript consultations, and field trips to enrich their writing craft and generate new projects. Led by a team of award-winning…
Thursday, Aug. 26th • 7:00 pm ET Streaming virtually from Los Angeles Available for viewing after this here The Smithsonian kicks off its “Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past” initiative this Thursday, which brings together resources from across the Smithsonian to explore how Americans understand, experience, and confront race and racism through several…
with Joe Zellner, Concord-Carlisle High School Social Studies Teacher Emeritus, Civil War 54th Regiment Re-enactor, and The Robbins House Advisor & Interpreter Wednesday, Sept. 22nd • 6-7:30 pm • Location TBA Concord Carlisle Adult & Community Education • Register here, fee: $25 When Caesar Robbins marched to war in 1776, enslaved and free people of…
with Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut emeritus professor, and author of The Minutemen and Their World (2001) and of The Transcendentalists and Their World (2021) Saturday, Sept. 25th • 10-11 am • Online • Register here Concord’s Ellen Garrison, daughter and granddaughter of men who had been enslaved, spent her life educating newly freed…
with Bob Bellinger, Suffolk University Black Studies Program Director & The Robbins House Board Member Wednesday, Sept. 29th • 6-7:30 pm • Online Concord Carlisle Adult & Community Education • Register here: fee $25 For free Black men and women, life in 19th-century New England was one of sharp contradictions. While people of color enjoyed…
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School Professor and Pulitzer-Prize winner for The Hemingses of Monticello, will discuss her newest book, On Juneteenth. She provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through…
with Maria Madison, Dean of Brandeis Heller School of Equity, Inclusion & Diversity & The Robbins House Co-president Wednesday, Oct. 6th • 6-7:30 pm • Online Concord Carlisle Adult & Community Education • Register here, fee $25 Ellen Garrison, the daughter and granddaughter of men who had been enslaved, spent her life educating newly freed…
Join journalist, scholar, and poet Clint Smith as he discusses his celebrated new book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, which topped the New York Times bestseller list soon after publication. Smith leads his readers through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks — those that are…
Author Ray Shepard and educator Nikki Turpin will look at the inspiring story of Ona Judge and how her daring escape during colonial times speaks to all of us in search of racial justice. Examining Ona’s story as well as the stories of those who resided at Robbins House, we will support not only young…
