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From readings to community conversations and performances, check out this archive of recent virtual events. For information on upcoming events, please subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media.
Upcoming Events
- The Petition: Virtual Performance
MAR 19: This remote version of the performance originally staged in the Old State House’s Council Chamber will include a talk-back session with the actors and playwright.Read more → - Tea Party Tonight! Monuments & Historical Memory
MAR 31: Join local personality Rob Crean on this first-of-its-kind comedy talk show, broadcast from the Old South Meeting House.Read more → - A New Space for Our Ideals
APR 8: A discussion about the role Revolutionary-Era sites play as monuments in our society, and how they can lead to conversation about our national values.Read more →
Past Events
- VIDEO | Attucks and the Birth of a Nation
JAN 27: How William Monroe Trotter, a prominent Black Boston activist, protested the white nationalist film by invoking the memory of Crispus Attucks.Read more → - VIDEO | Difficult Transitions
JAN 13: A lively panel discussion with leading historians exploring some of the most tenuous moments in executive power in our nation’s history.Read more → - VIDEO | Tea Party Tonight!
DEC 16: Join local personality Rob Crean on this first-of-its-kind comedy talk show, broadcast from the Old South Meeting House.Read more → - VIDEO | Looking for Miss Phillis
VIDEO: Poet, essayist and novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers will discusses her journey to write a book of poetry on the life and times of Phillis Wheatley Peters.Read more → - VIDEO | Monumental Attucks
NOV 10: African American leaders in late 19th century Boston fought to create a lasting monument to Crispus Attucks on Boston Common.Read more → - Writing Plays of the Past and Future
Playwrights discuss their plays in the Huntington’s Dream Boston series, what it means to make art during a pandemic, and the role that history and art play in processing current events.Read more → - VIDEO | Demanding Freedom: Attucks and the Abolition Movement
19th presented Attucks as the first martyr of the Revolution who died fighting for liberty, an image that resonated powerfully with those seeking emancipation for African Americans.Read more → - Video | Imagining Attucks
Explores how Attucks has been interpreted through the years and grapples with the challenges that come with bringing Attucks to life.Read more → - Video | Liberty & Sovereignty in 18th Century New England
Examining the political conversations that were taking place around the time of the Boston Massacre among white colonists and the African- and Native-descended communities.Read more → - Video | Boston’s Activists of Color: A Historical Tour & Contemporary Conversation
View a short film about anti-slavery activists in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood during the 19th-century Abolitionist Movement, followed by a conversation with one of these activists’ descendants.Read more → - Video | Man of Many Worlds Online Panel
A lively discussion about Attucks’s Afro-Indian community and reflect on the experiences he might have had that informed his thinking about resistance and protest and ultimately brought him to King Street on the night of the Boston Massacre.Read more → - Video | Discovering Crispus – A Play in Process
Exploring how the memory of Attucks has inspired generations of activists to fight for social change.Read more →