Marblehead Museum
The Marblehead Museum will host a book talk on Thursday, November 6 at 7pm with Nicholas Gentile, author of the new book Enemies to their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution. Gentile’s book profiles Marblehead in the pivotal year of 1774. He will share compelling stories, many previously untold, showcasing how...
Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
November is Native American Heritage Month. Join us for a lecture with Tess Lukey, The Trustees Associate Curator of Native American Arts. Learn about The Trustees efforts to center Indigenous...
Peabody Essex Museum
Birds need sleep as much as we do, and they have evolved some unique habits to match their intensely energetic lifestyles. Ornithologist and author Roger Pasquier discusses the evolution and benefits of avian sleep, including recent discoveries that some long-distance flyers can even sleep while in flight! Other birds sleep in short bouts of several...
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
Historian Alexander Cain returns to Newburyport to explore one of the most tense and transformative moments in American history in this engaging lecture on Massachusetts and Newburyport in early 1776. As the Siege of Boston drags through a bitter winter, he will discuss civilian suffering inside the town, the controversial use of smallpox in efforts...
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
Join us for the Canadian perspective on the Arnold Expedition and the last siege of Québec in 1775-1776. During the first months of the War of Independence, the Continental Army set its sights on the Province of Quebec. This British colony, born from the ashes of New France, is equally a threat and an opportunity...
Pickering House
Discover 18th-century Salem through the lives of the Pickering Family, as their home witnessed a century of transformation. This lecture explores how Salem evolved from a provincial port town into a hub of revolution, commerce, and global connections, while the Pickerings navigated the tides of independence, politics, and daily life. See how one family’s story...
The Rockwell
The critically acclaimed Drunk Black History show returns to Boston to close out Black History Month! Comedian Brandon Collins (New York Comedy Festival) hosts this event where you’ll hear from comedians, writers, and experts who are skunked out of their mind trying to recap the biography of a historical Black figure or event that hasn’t...
Hamilton Hall
Join History Alive and Hamilton Hall for a celebratory, historical runway of Black creativity and activism. Discover the stories of abolitionists, artists, and entrepreneurs (including members of the Remond family, Anna Douglass, Charlotte Forten and Edmonia Lewis) who helped shape American history. Explore the ways that these creative and talented historical figures "fashioned" their own...
Virtual
Join us on March 5th for our first virtual lecture of 2026, “Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations,” presented in celebration of the 39th annual Women’s History Month. There were many reasons why a woman in seventeenth-century New England might be accused of witchcraft, but those who were alone, poor, and, perhaps, quarrelsome...
Virtual
Join us on March 5th for our first virtual lecture of 2026, “Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations,” presented in celebration of the 39th annual Women’s History Month. There were many reasons why a woman in seventeenth-century New England might be accused of witchcraft, but those who were alone, poor, and, perhaps, quarrelsome...
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
Step into wartime Newburyport with Alex Cain as loyalists face persecution, prices soar, and fear hangs heavy as we move to independence. In 1776, as war raged across the American colonies, the clash of armies echoed far beyond the battlefield into everyday life in Newburyport. Historian and fan favorite Alex Cain invites you to step...
Appleton Farms
Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day at Appleton Farms! Women have shaped Appleton Farms for centuries: from Indigenous women who were the primary farmers and preservers of food, to Joan Appleton and her ancestors, to our current Trustees staff farmers. Learn about these women and the grit it takes to thrive as a woman...
