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American Inspiration Author Series
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"After Lives: On Biography and Mysteries of the Human Heart" with Megan Marshall

Special for Women’s History Month: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of celebrated American women Margaret Fuller, the Peabody Sisters, and Elizabeth Bishop, presents her own life and work. Don’t miss hearing from Megan Marshall, the "gifted storyteller” (New Yorker) at “the front rank of American biographers” (New York Times), her presentation and conversation with fellow biographer Janice Nimura.

 

Moderated by Janice Nimura
01:09:18
Eyewitness to Revolution

This illustrated talk will focus on the stories told by objects in the Concord Museum collection about the lead-up to April 19, 1775, and the epochal day itself. In the aggregate, these stories contribute forcefully to an understanding that the Revolution, the great turn from a monarchy to a republic, was already over well before the day the Revolutionary War began.

 

Presented by David Wood
Family History Research
1:11:21
Friend or Foe: Researching Colonial Ancestors During the American Revolution

In this online lecture, Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert will discuss how to research your colonial ancestors and determine if—and how—they may have served the cause of the American Revolution.