Events at Member Institutions

Wed, Mar 3, 5-6:15PM

Free; donations welcome

Online

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects that uses items of intolerance to teach tolerance through honest dialogues and examinations of the historical patterns of race relations. Join this virtual conversation with the museum’s founder, Dr. David Pilgrim, to examine its mission, vision, and work.

For more information and to register, visit

HistoricNewEngland.org/Tolerance

In this hybrid of lecture & performance, Regie Gibson explores the creative power of speech in the modern Black spoken-word tradition. 

Literaryperformer, Regie Gibson, has lectured & performed widely in the U.S., Cuba & Europe. Representing the U.S. in Italy, Regie competed for & received both the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone & The Europa in Versi Award in LaGuardia di Como. He’s a Brother Thomas Fellow & has received two Live Arts Boston Grants to develop his first play, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae in which he intersects the ancient Greek tragedy with African-American spiritual & musical culture.

Regie has served as a consultant for the NEA’s “How Art Works” commission & the “Mere Distinction of Color”: a permanent exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier home focusing on American slavery & the U.S. constitution. He has composed texts for The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale, the Handel+Haydn Society, & has featured with the Lexington Symphony. He’s an actor & creator of The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy— a theatrical, literary-concert focusing on the life & works of William Shakespeare. He serves on the boards of the New England Poetry Club & Grub Street Writers & teaches at Clark University.

This event will be hosted both via Zoom and Facebook Live. Participants are encouraged to ask questions at the end of Regie’s presentation.

Zoom Registration - Link here

Facebook Event - Link here

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Join us online on Thursday, January 21st at 7:00 PM for a presentation on MLK.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most prolific and honorable leaders for all time. He is also one of the most complex.

In August 1963, Dr. King was at the height of his popularity with his fight to end racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights Movement. His “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the most celebrated orations in American history. However, Dr. King himself evolved as a leader. His relationships with J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, the militant Black Power movement, his commitment to fighting the war on poverty and his stance on the Vietnam War all pose the question: did Dr. King’s dream result in a nightmare?

Ryan M. Jones, historian and Museum Educator at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN – the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., will be presenting on the life of MLK and the civil rights movement.

We will be hosting this free event on both Zoom and Facebook Live and encourage participants to take part in our Q&A at the end of Jones’ presentation.

More information - www.firstamendmentmuseum.org/ryan

Facebook: www.facebook.com/firstamendmentmuseum

Join the First Amendment Museum online on Thursday, January 14th, 2021 at 7 pm EST as we speak to Micheal Meyerson for his presentation “From the Constitution to COVID: Religious Freedom in America.”

Meyerson is a Professor of Law and the Piper & Marbury Faculty Fellow at the University of Baltimore, specializing in constitutional law and American legal history. As the author of Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Yale University Press, 2012), Meyerson has also written three other books and published numerous articles on constitutional law, contracts law, and the First Amendment, some of which have appeared in the Stanford Journal of International Law, Indiana Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Miami Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. He is a member of the New York Bar.

Be sure to tune into this presentation with Meyerson, a gifted storyteller and animated speaker, who will explore the themes and history of religious freedom in the United States, from the founding fathers to present-day issues surrounding COVID.

Our lecture will be hosted both via Facebook Live and Zoom. Participants are encouraged to take part in a Q&A session with Meyerson at the conclusion of his presentation.

The First Amendment Museum's mission is to inspire Americans to live and love their five freedoms - freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble, and freedom to petition. Learn more about us on our website!

For more information including the Zoom link for this free, online event, check out our event listing here or visit our Facebook at www.facebook.com/firstamendmentmuseum

Please call the Museum with any questions about the presentation at 207-557-2290

For over a decade, staff members at Bowdoin College’s Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center have studied original journals, artifacts, and photographs related to Robert Peary’s efforts to be the first person to reach the North Pole. They have visited museums and archives, traveled to sites in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes with connections to the expeditions, and contacted descendants of expedition members. In addition, Arctic archaeologists Genevieve LeMoine and Susan A. Kaplan traveled to the edge of the Polar Sea to investigate one of Peary’s camps. In this illustrated lecture, Kaplan will discuss new insights they have reached about how Peary worked and the interpersonal dynamics on his last two expeditions. Also, she will explain ways in which the Arctic of today differs from the Arctic of Peary’s time.

KHS speaker Kaplan, an Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist, is a professor of anthropology and director of the museum at Bowdoin. She has studied some of the ways Inuit have responded to environmental change and contact with the West, as well as the history of Arctic exploration.

To view this presentation, head to the KHS Facebook page at 6:30 p.m. January 20, and the video will air live. Due to copyright concerns, the January presentation will not be available for future viewing. If you have a question, please submit it in the comments during the live video presentation. Here is the link to the KHS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KHS1891.

If you have any questions about the program, please call Scott Wood, executive director, at 622-7718

The Tate House Museum and the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Maine invite you to celebrate the 400 th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival at Plymouth on December 18, 1620 with speaker Captain Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations at Plimoth Patuxet (PP), formerly Plimoth Plantation. Captain Perry recently oversaw a three-year restoration project of MAYFLOWER II, the Mayflower replica that received over 25 million visitors from the time of its docking at PP in 1957 and 2016. Perry also commanded the restored vessel from Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut (site of the restoration work) on her voyage home to Plymouth last year. He will show brand new video and documentary photographs taken by the restoration crew while describing the challenges of historic restoration, sharing the exhilaration of sailing MayflowerII, and highlighting the role of the Mayflower in America’s colonial history.

Speaker: Captain Whit Perry, Director of Maritime Preservation and Operations, Plimoth Patuxet

Format: Zoom

Date: Wed December 9, 2020 at 6:00 PM (program will last ~75 minutes with Q &A)Admission: $10.00 members of Tate House Museum, $15.00 general public If you are interested in becoming a member please check our website www.tatehouse.org, email info@tatehouse.org, or call 774-6177.

Register: To register, please email info@tatehouse.org and leave your phone number. A Tate House Museum representative will call to take your credit card information for payment.

Registrants will receive a Zoom link by email the day before the event, Dec 8th

Come hear voices buried for centuries, forgotten by history, stories of ordinary people coming to light for one historic night in October. 

Come to the Stroudwater Burial Ground

(1300 Westbrook Street) on Saturday October 24 at dusk 5:00 PM (rain date Oct 25)  Bring your own chairs and/or blanket for seating

Groups will be socially-distanced and program limited to 50 people/pods     Masks Required

$10 /person

$5 /children under 12

  $20 family

Prepayment ONLY and registration required. NO WALK-ONS

Email info@tatehouse.org with reservation request and leave phone number.

Please park on the street near the Tate House (1270 Westbrook St or on Waldo St) and cross Congress St to cemetery. No parking at cemetery, but chairs can be dropped off there if necessary

 Tate House Presents…Behind the Best Rooms:Exploring the Lives of  Domestic Servants in 18th Century New England

As one of Stroudwater’s most prosperous 18th-century households, the Tate family relied on domestic servants for their comfort and to assert social status. This lecture combines evidence garnered from family history and the building’s architecture with records of other elite families within the Tates’ social circle and throughout wider New England to build a picture of service in a prosperous 18 th century Maine home.

Tate family legend has given us a single, tantalizing mention of an enslaved Black servant named Bette. The role of servants and circumstances that contributed to a life of servitude will be discussed including the underappreciated, yet significant contribution of Black servants to America’s domestic service history. This talk will explore specific spaces within and around Tate House used by servants, creating a richer picture of individual household dynamics in one of Maine’s most iconic historic homes.

An Outdoor Illustrated Lecture by Aimee Keithan, Ph.D.in the beautiful backyard of the 1755 Tate House overlooking the Stroudwater River and our Historic Garden

7:00 PM Saturday Sept 19  (rain date Sept 20)

Check-in beginning at 6:30 PM in the front yard of Tate House

1270 Westbrook Street, Portland

$15/person  $25/couple

Social Distancing and Face Coverings Required

All seating is reserved and limited to 50 people

Registration and Pre-payment ONLY

info@tatehouse.org or 207-774-6177

Open until Tickets are Sold Out

If you are not currently a Tate House Museum member,

 join today and enjoy FREE entry to this not-to-be-missed event!

On Friday, September 25, 2020, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will offer a FREE virtual workshop on applying for NEH grants. It will be conducted by Mark Silver, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop is open to the public. Anyone interested in learning about NEH funding opportunities and application strategies is invited to attend, although space is limited and priority will be given to those in the Mid-Coast, Downeast and Highlands regions of Maine. The workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Although the event is free, you must register in advance. Information and registration: https://umaine.edu/mhc/2020/07/27/neh-workshop/

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be continuing their DH Pop In series throughout the year to show the potential and accessibility of the digital humanities, including digital mapping, interactive timelines, text analysis and more. The next DH Pop In will be Monday, August 3, at 1PM. MHC Humanities Specialist and DH creator Karen Sieber will show virtual attendees how to build quick, easy, free interactive timelines using the tool TimelineJS. No skill is necessary. We swear. Learning this easy-to-use tool will allow your institution to build virtual timelines showcasing material in a collection, or highlighting moment's in a place's history in a dynamic and interactive way. Email mhc@maine.edu to get the link to register for the DH Pop In.