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01:09:18
Eyewitness to Revolution

This illustrated talk will focus on the stories told by objects in the Concord Museum collection about the lead-up to April 19, 1775, and the epochal day itself. In the aggregate, these stories contribute forcefully to an understanding that the Revolution, the great turn from a monarchy to a republic, was already over well before the day the Revolutionary War began.

 

Presented by David Wood
Family History Research
1:11:21
Friend or Foe: Researching Colonial Ancestors During the American Revolution

In this online lecture, Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert will discuss how to research your colonial ancestors and determine if—and how—they may have served the cause of the American Revolution.

American Inspiration Author Series
01:12:56
"Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy," author Jeffrey Boutwell with Robert D. Putnam

HYBRID EVENT | Venture back to the 19th Century to meet statesman George Boutwell, who fought for racial and economic equality alongside Presidents Lincoln and Grant. Hear from his biographer, also a distant relation, author Jeffrey Boutwell, and Harvard professor Robert Putnam about this remarkable man, his family, and this turbulent, formative period in American history.

Moderated by Robert D. Putnam