Students at the Belmont Hill School for Boys recently researched the history of the bell that has towered over their campus since 1927. In a 2017 independent study, seniors examined the school’s ties with a Concord family who were school founders, and the family’s sugar plantations in Cuba from the mid- to late-1800s. What they…
POSTPONED Please join us as we read and discuss “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The life and works of Frederick Douglass continue to shape our understanding of America. A gifted orator and prescient writer, Douglass forces us to reckon with the legacy of slavery and the promises of democracy. Mass Humanities…
Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics with Keynote Speaker Dr. Ibram X. Kendi George Schaller, the 2020 recipient of the Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing, will also be joining us. FOR REGISTERED ATTENDEES: IF YOU MISS ANY EVENT, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS RECORDINGS ON THE SITE THROUGH DEC. 2021.
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…
