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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Boston Environmental History Seminar is pleased to announce our 2018-2019 series, with seven sessions held
<b>monthly from October to April</b>. Sessions are generally held on the second Tuesday of each month and start at 5:15 PM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">What do MHS seminars offer? Access to the most recent scholarship on a range of topics, stimulating conversations that can inform your own work, and
networking! The seminars comprise a welcoming community of scholars from throughout the region, and the format of the sessions leaves plenty of time to socialize over a light buffet supper.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We’ll kick off the environmental series on
<b>October 9</b> with a panel conversation on <b>Native American Environmental History</b> featuring Lisa Brooks of Amherst College, Strother Roberts of Bowdoin College, Ashley Smith of Hampshire College, and Thomas Wickman of Trinity College and moderated
by Cedric Woods of the Institute for New England Native American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">. Other sessions will consider recreational landscapes of Civil War memory, black labor at
the dawn of Jim Crow, biological exchange in Pacific sugarcane plantations, environmental racism and justice in Boston, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Attendance is free, but you can subscribe online ($25) for the convenience of advance online access to the papers in FOUR series: this, our new Boston
African American History Seminar, the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, and the Boston Seminar on Modern American Society and Culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">View the schedule and subscribe online
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">at </span><a href="https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history">https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RSVP</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> by emailing
</span><a href="mailto:seminars@masshist.org"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">seminars@masshist.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">. Follow our activities on Twitter @MHS_Research.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Entrepreneurship & Classical Design in Boston’s South End: The Furniture of Isaac Vose & Thomas Seymour, 1815 to 1825</i> is on display at MHS Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM through 14 September. More information is available at www.masshist.org.
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Alexis Buckley, Research Coordinator & Book Review Editor<br>
Massachusetts Historical Society<br>
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215<br>
Phone: 617-646-0577, Fax: 617-859-0074<br>
Email: abuckley@masshist.org<br>
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