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    The Great Dissenter

    Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan opposed limits on civil liberties and dissented in the 1896 “separate but equal” Plessy v. Ferguson case. Former Politico executive editor Peter Ca…

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    How Rights Went Wrong

    Columbia University Law Professor Jamal Greene looked at America’s approach to individual rights and offered his thoughts on how to build a better system of justice. This virtual event was h…

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    A Worse Place Than Hell

    Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson looked at how the Civil War’s 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg impacted the lives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Army…

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    Land

    Author Simon Winchester examined the use of land and the concept of property ownership throughout human history. This was a virtual event hosted by the Boston Athenaeum.

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    The Book Collectors

    French journalist Delphine Minoui reported on the efforts of a group of Syrians to build a library during that country’s civil war. This was a virtual event hosted by the Boston Athenaeum an…

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    Women Voters, 1920-2016

    Christina Wolbrecht, political scientist and author of A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage, discussed how politicians and the media have attempted to understand a…

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    Heirs of an Honored Name

    Douglas Egerton, history professor at LeMoyne College, chronicled the political ascendancy of John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, and their descendants decision to dissolve the politic…

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    The Great Migration

    Author and American Studies professor Davarian Baldwin lectured on the “Great Migration” of African Americans from the southern United States to the north in the century following the Civil …

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    Four Generations of the Adams Family

    The Boston Athenaeum and Boston’s Poets' Theatre presented a staged reading program in honor of the literary legacy of four generations of the Adams family. Based on the writings of founding…

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    Dangerous Ambition, Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson

    In a dual biography, Susan Hertog recounts the life of American journalist Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961), the first female chief of a European news bureau and Rebecca West (1892-1983) a Briti…

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    Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

    Megan Marshall talked about her book Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, a biography of the 19th century editor, war correspondent and front-page columnist for the New York Tribune. Ms. Ma…

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    2012 Presidential Campaign

    Reporters and political analysts talked about about the final two months of the 2012 presidential campaign. They focused on the state of the race coming out of the conventions and what the t…

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    Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography In Books

    William Kuhn recalls the publishing career of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who worked as an editor for Doubleday and Viking. Mr. Kuhn reports that although Ms. Onassis never authored a memoir…

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    The World on Sunday

    Nicholson Baker talked about a book he co-wrote, The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer’s Newspaper (1898-1911), published by Bulfinch. The book was co-written with his wife, Ma…

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    Wodehouse: A Life

    Robert McCrum talked about his biography Wodehouse: A Life, published by W.W. Norton and Company. The book covers the life of 20th century British comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse. The son of …

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    Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

    Jack Lynch talked about the book he edited, "Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language". Mr. Lynch argued that Johnson’s dictionary is one…

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    Book Preservation

    Stanley Cushing of the Boston Athenaeum demonstrated the philosophy and methods of preserving rare books.

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