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Philip McFarland

Philip McFarland

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Evening with Henry and Harriet Beecher

Philip McFarland

December 6, 2007

Philip McFarland and Debby Applegate discuss the life of abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, and that of her brother, the influential preacher Henry Ward Beecher.

Celebrating Boston Athenaeum Writers Past and Present I

Philip McFarland

September 26, 2006

As part of a bicentennial series celebrating Boston Athenaeum writers, Jill Ker Conway discusses the work of Samuel Eliot Morison; Megan Marshall discusses Hannah Adams; and Philip McFarland discusses Francis Parkman. William M. Fowler acts as master of ceremonies.

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