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Upcoming Events

- 03/03/2021
  Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice: Lessons from the Jim Crow Museum
  03/04/2021
  Closer Encounters: Conversations about Artful Stories
  3/5/21, 3/12/21, 3/19/21, 3/26/21
  Farm Friends at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm Session 1
  Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
  Massachusetts
- 03/09/2021
  Harriet Tubman: A Portrait of an American Freedom Fighter
  03/10/2021
  Documenting Twenty-first Century Boston: A Conversation with Photographer John D. Woolf
  03/13/2021
  Gropius Glows
  Gropius House
  Massachusetts
- 03/17/2021
  Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman: A Creative Kinship
  03/18/2021
  The Lyman Estate Room by Room
  03/23/2021
  Closer Encounters: Conversations about Artful Stories
- 03/24/2021
  “God’s Little Acre”: Life, Death, Work, and Worship in the African Heritage Community of Newport, Rhode Island
  03/25/2021
  Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
  03/27/2021
  Gropius Glows
  Gropius House
  Massachusetts

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Closer Encounters: Conversations about Artful Stories
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
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God’s Little Acre: The African Heritage Community of Newport, R.I.
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Gropius House
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Lyman Estate Greenhouses
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Eustis Estate Museum
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Featured News

Feb 19 2021

The History of Black History Month: Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s fight for reform

Feb 19, 2021

Amanda Gorman, the nation’s youngest-ever inaugural poet, delivered these words on January 20 at the swearing in of the new president and vice president:...

Feb 18 2021

Video: Explore 230 acres of open land at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm

Feb 18, 2021

Historic New England shares more than 1,250 acres with the public at our historic sites. We offer outside spaces that range from formal gardens...

Feb 05 2021

Historic New England acquires photographs of diners and Boston’s Chinatown from artist John Woolf

Feb 05, 2021

Documenting the ever-changing look of the region John Woolf has worked as a photographic artist for more than forty years. His photographs of Boston’s...

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