I would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members we are so glad that you are here. And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovere
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Readers. [inaudible conversations] okay. Thank you all for joining us. Im Gavin Kleespies for the massachusetts historic al society. Tonight on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of the boston massacre well hear from professor serena zabin on her book, the boston massacre, Family History. We very frequently pull together a small exhibition from our collection that highlights some material we have within our holdings that illuminate the evenings discussion. Today we have an entire exhibition, so we didnt need a small exhibition weapon have a whole exhibition but our exhibition features or speaker this evening so if you didnt see he it, shes on one over video monitors and very generous with her time help us plan the exhibition and sitting for an interview. We couldnt have done our current exbig without her help so we oher a debt of gratitude. She director of the programs of american studies at carlton college. Received thunder undergreat degree from bodden college and ph. D from rutge
Okay thank you all for joining us this evening tonight on the very eve of the children 50th anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena with a great new book the boston massacre, Family History. As a regular guest notes we pull together small exhibition from our collection that highlights the material we have within our holdings that eliminates the discussion today we have an entire exhibition. We did not need a small exhibition this time. That only to have a small exhibition bar exhibition actually features our speaker this evening. If you do not see it shes on the video monitors upstairs and was also very generous with her time helping us pull in the exhibition and sitting for interview. We certainly could not of done our current exhibition without her help, we owe her a debt of gratitude. Serena is a professor of Early American History and directory of a program of american studies at carleton college. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees her
Like as possible. To those of you joining us the first time putting a work in welcome and an invitation to explore the wide range of programs we have available here. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phones or anything else thatt might make noise during the program. Take you for doing that. We are thrilled tonight to welcome a claimed historian mary beth norton. Author of five books and coeditor of several others and her textbook, a people and nation, survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and is sold more than 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and was a 2018 president of the american historical association. She is the mary [inaudible] Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book, 1774, is available for purchase and signing following the program. So now, please join me in welcoming marybeth norton. [applause] it is nice to be here. I want to make sure that the quicker is the clicker on . It doesnt seem to be. Oh, there is spi