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A Salem Witch with Daniel Gagnon

Historian Daniel A. Gagnon will discuss his recent biography of Salem Witch Trials victim Rebecca Nurse, A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse. The author will take questions from […]

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Author Talk: Sasha Issenberg ON ZOOM

Join author Sasha Issenberg for a discussion of his book The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage […]

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Discovering American Drag on ZOOM

Matthew Wittmann, Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, offers a virtual look at the history of drag performance in the United States through photographs, ephemera, and a variety of other archival materials […]

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