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Lectures curated around NOVA: Becoming Human that explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. How did we become "human?" This program investigates explosive discoveries, transforming the picture of how our ancestors started on the road that led to us - the creative and "behaviorally modern" people of today. Shot as discoveries were unearthed... -
Lectures curated around American Experience: Civilan Conservation Corps, a New Deal work program that combined conservation, renewal, awareness and appreciation of the nation's natural resources. As part of the New Deal legislation proposed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), the CCC was designed to aid relief of the unemployment resulting from the Great Depression... -
Lectures curated around Independent Lens: Power Paths that explores energy through the eyes of Native Americans. This film reveals their quest to tap wind, solar, biomass and other power sources for their communities and cities across the country. From the Lakota Lands across the Great Plains to the Navajo and Hopi desert lands of the Southwest, tribes face fierce opposition in... -
Lectures by and about Native Americans that pay tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans. -
Lectures curated around the Boston Book Festival celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight and inspire. LOTS MORE COMING SOON! -
Lectures curated around the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in Europe. This anniversary series includes lectures on Berlin and Germany, on human rights and freedom, as well as talks by some of the journalists who covered the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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- Marshall Goldman on Russia
- New England Journal of Medicine Panel on Health Care Reform
- Manouchehr Mottaki on Iran's Nuclear Program
- Daniel Pipes and Amy Dockser Marcus on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Lectures by Nobel Laureates
Peabody Essex Museum Lectures
Salem, MA
The Peabody Essex Museum is America’s oldest continuously operating museum.
It was founded in 1799, sixteen years after the establishment of the nation and nearly three-quarters of a century before the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The museum’s founders were among America's first global entrepreneurs, traveling the world in search of trade. The collections they amassed are exceptional for their provenance, age, quality, and significance. The Peabody Essex Museum’s collections (many ranking among the finest of their kind) exceed 2.4 million works of art and culture. Peabody Essex collections also encompass twenty-four historic buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, five National Register buildings, and our most recent architecture acquisition, Yin Yu Tang, the only complete Qing Dynasty house located outside China.
