Museum of African American History Lectures

Boston, MA

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
October 3, 2009
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Fre
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
October 3, 2009
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Fre
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook
June 12, 2008
00:54:01
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook, author of Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend, tells the remarkable true story of a pre-Civil War African-American family in New England. Mr. and Mrs.
Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
David W. Blight
May 8, 2008
00:48:05
David W. Blight, Yale professor and historian, discusses his latest work, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.
Museums Online: New Ways to Visit Museums
Katherine Burton Jones
April 30, 2008
01:17:04
Katherine Burton Jones discusses how museums are serving and being shaped by new audiences, using Web 2.0 technologies. Burton Jones assistant dean of Media Services at Harvard Divinity School, discusses new multimedia approaches to the museum experience.
Electing a Black President
Michael Eric Dyson
November 8, 2007
01:39:59
Michael Eric Dyson and a panel of black elected officials discuss the possibility of electing a black president as we head into an historical election year.
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Slavery and the Law in New England
Philip D. Morgan
April 22, 2004
01:55:00
A panel discusses the recent compilation of data related to the slave trade in New England that makes this an auspicious time to examine the region's role in the trade.
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Native American Slave Trade in New England
Thomas Doughton
April 22, 2004
01:57:25
Panelists from around the country converge to discuss how the history of the Native American slave trade taints New England's past.
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Complicity: How The North Profited From Slavery
Anne Farrow
January 12, 2006
01:19:31
Conventional wisdom is challenged as Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, the authors of Complicity: How The North Promoted, Prolonged, And Profited From Slavery, discuss their findings in a public talk.
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Memory of the Slave Trade in New England
Beverly Morgan-Welch
April 23, 2004
02:12:53
A panel discusses the way New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over 200 years, from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
October 3, 2009
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Fre
Audio-only
African Meeting House Bicentennial Celebration
Deval Patrick
December 6, 2006
01:50:51
Massachusetts governor elect Deval Patrick, Boston City mayor Thomas M. Menino and others join the Museum of African American History in celebrating the 200th anniversary of the African Meeting House.

The Museum of African American History was founded to preserve and interpret the contributions of people of African descent and those who have found common cause with them in the struggle for liberty and justice for all Americans. Through permanent and rotating exhibits, a wide range of public and education programs ranging from debates to concerts, and summer youth camps to Underground Railroad Overnight Adventures, it places the African American experience in an accurate social, cultural and historical perspective. Incorporated in 1967, the Museum is nationally and internationally known for The African Meeting House, a National Historic Landmark, and Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill, The African Meeting House on Nantucket, and Black Heritage Trails® in Boston and Nantucket.