Zoom webinar on Friday, January 21st at 6:30 pm for a live character portrayal and video depicting how MLK’s “Poor Peoples Campaign” was a turning point in intersectional advocacy.

Monday, January 17, 2022, 1:00pm-2:00pm | Meet historian Richard Smith and Nikki Turpin from the Robbins House at the Thoreau house replica near the main parking lot, for a conversation about Thoreau’s night in jail and his essay Civil Disobedience.

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…

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…

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 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…

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 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…