Tuesday, March 13, 2012
5:15-7:15 PM
Immigration and Urban History Seminar: Policing Migrants
and Militants – In Defense of Nation and Empire in the U.S.-Canadian
Borderlands
Kornel S. Chang of Rutgers University will discuss the
Canadian-U.S. border in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries
through the lense of keeping Asiatic peoples out of self-proclaimed “white
man’s countries.” Chang will argue that Asiatic exclusion was as much about
defending and preserving the Anglophone empire as it was about keeping out
undesirable and inassimilable foreigners. Free. RSVP required.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
6:00-7:30 PM
Author Talk: Where We Worked – A Celebration of America’s
Workers and the Nation They Built
Historian Jack Larkin of Clark University and Old SturbridgeVillage will discuss American work and life. Pre-talk reception at 5:30 PM.
Free. RSVP requested. Call (617) 646-0560
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston
6:00-7:30 PM
Bussey Bridge Train Disaster: 125th Anniversary
Panel Discussion
Josef Porteleki will moderate a discussion with Cathy Slade
(Roslindale Historical Society), writer Ed Sweeney, and writer Jeremy Fraine
about the Bussey Bridge Train Disaster of 1887. Free.
Boston Public Library – Roslindale Branch, 4238 Washington
St., Roslindale, MA
Thursday, March 15, 2012
12:15-1:15 PM
Boston Neighborhoods: Chinatown
Professor Wing-Kai To of the Chinese Historical Society ofNew England will discuss the history and growth of Boston’s Chinatown, the
third largest community of its kind in the United States, from the 1870s
settlement of Chinese laborers to the present day. $6; free for OSMH members.
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St., Boston
OldSouthMeetingHouse.org
6:00-7:30 PM
Washington's Artillery
J.L. Bell (Boston1775 Blog) will present an illustrated talk on the strengthening of Continental Artillery during the Revolutionary War. Free. Reservations suggested. (617) 876-4491
Longfellow House, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA
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6:00-7:30 PM
Washington's Artillery
J.L. Bell (Boston1775 Blog) will present an illustrated talk on the strengthening of Continental Artillery during the Revolutionary War. Free. Reservations suggested. (617) 876-4491
Longfellow House, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA
NPS.gov
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