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Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics

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

Walden Woods Young Writers Workshop Field Trip at Concord Academy

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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…

Smithsonian Hosts Inaugural Forum – “Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past”

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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…

Concord’s Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary & Civil Wars: What were they fighting for?

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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…

WRITE CONCORD – Letters from an Early Civil Rights Activist

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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…

Free Blacks from the Revolutionary War – Civil War: How free were free people of color?

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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…

The Essential, Sweeping Story of Juneteenth’s Importance – A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed

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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…

Concord Festival of Authors Kick-Off Keynote Speaker – Dr. Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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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…

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