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The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, a series of scholarly symposia and publications active since 1976.
18th century Congregationalist composer William Billings created “something new, something different, something American, not only in its melodic and harmonic content, but in its theory of not having a theory. In the independence of its art.”
At our “Recalling the Revolution” conference last weekend, Jim Bennett of Revolutionary Spaces shared his research on how Boston schoolchildren read the Declaration of Independence from the Old State House balcony for decades up until the Bicentennial. x.com/RevSpaces/stat…
Did you know that from 1910-1975 Boston high school students dressed up and read the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the Old State House? In honor of Independence Day, we're spotlighting this bygone tradition all month long! Learn more: ow.ly/8Sei50WgtVl
The 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will take place on June 26–27 at Historic Deerfield. That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences. The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the Future.
The 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will take place on June 26–27 at Historic Deerfield. That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences. The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.
On this day in 1925, the Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston is moved massmoments.org/moment-details…
Touring Revolutionary sites at Historic Deerfield as part of our “Recalling the Revolution” conference. Here we are at the Liberty Pole with a Liberty & Union flag at top. Deerfield’s original pole was chopped down one night. A nearby witness stone recognizes chattel slavery.

What are the origin stories of the Bunker Hill Monument, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, and the Henry Knox Trail reveal about how we remember our nation’s origin story? Join us in Deerfield on June 27–28 to discuss “Recalling the Revolution”: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

What do the origin stories of the Bunker Hill Monument, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum in Hadley, and the Henry Knox Trail say about how we remember our nation’s origin story? Join us on June 27–28 to discuss “Recalling the Revolution”: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

Our “Recalling the Revolution in New England” conference rolls through Saturday, June 28, with panels on “Memories Reconsidered,” “Performances of Memory,” “Recovering Memories,” and “Objects of Memory.” Join us in Historic Deerfield or online! dublin-seminar.org/2025-dublin-se…

Our “Recalling the Revolution” conference kicks off Friday afternoon with panels on “Institutions of Memory” and “Gender & Memory,” followed by Prof. Zara Anishanslin’s keynote on “A Forgotten History of the Artists who Championed the American Revolution”: dublin-seminar.org/2025-dublin-se…

J. L. Bell, co-chair of our conference program committee this year, is getting into the “Recalling the Revolution” theme with an online presentation for Old North Church on “The Ghost of Major John Pitcairn” tonight at 7pm: eventbrite.com/e/the-ghost-of…

J. L. Bell, co-chair of our conference program committee this year, is getting into the “Recalling the Revolution” theme with an online presentation for Old North Church on “The Ghost of Major John Pitcairn,” Tuesday, June 24, at 7pm: eventbrite.com/e/the-ghost-of…

How have New England communities like Lexington, Cambridge, and Exeter told and revised their Revolutionary stories over the decades? Expert speakers explore that history at our “Recalling the Revolution” conference at Historic Deerfield, June 27–28. dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

How have New England communities like Lexington, Cambridge, and Exeter told and revised their Revolutionary stories over the decades? Expert speakers explore that history at our “Recalling the Revolution” conference in Deerfield, June 27–28. dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

Thanks to generous donors we have a limited number of free registrations available for university students. If you’re researching the memory of the American Revolution, check out the program for our June 27–28 conference in Deerfield and online: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

Thanks to generous donors, we have a limited number of free registrations available for university students. If you’re researching the memory of the American Revolution, check out the program for our June 27–28 conference in Deerfield and online: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

Register for our “Recalling the Revolution in New England” conference at Historic Deerfield next weekend, either online or in person, and you can access all the presentations for a month, from Anishanslin (keynote) to Zea (Putnam powder horn). dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

Register for our “Recalling the Revolution in New England” conference at Historic Deerfield next weekend, either online or in person, and you’ll have access to all the presentations for a month, from Anishanslin (keynote) to Zea (Putnam powder horn). dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…
