History from public history, and he is written numerous articles for the american bout of trust. If you look closely, email so spot him in historical films, including mount vernon, and the Boston Tea Party Shift in museums. Also, travis is pretty famous on youtube because travis did three or four videos a week of virtual programs during covid times. Travis is well versed in doing virtual presentations. It is my honor to present travis as he presents disinfectant and dangerous persons. Royalist resistance in the minutemen. Travis . Thank you so much robert, it is a pleasure to be here today. With that, i will go ahead and jump right in. Let me get the Screen Share going here. Everybody see that all right . Good. So, 1936, the american author, Steven Vincent brene, releasing one of my favorite works of american literature, and quite a famous short story. That is the Devil And Daniel webster. It is a story about a new hampshire farmer, selling his soul to the devil, in exchange for prospe
Path founders, women of plymouth. And as a mass humanities scholar on womens suffrage commemoration project with the Falmouth Museum on the green. She serves on the board of the adams birthplace and as a Museum Administrator of bostons gibson house museum. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming michelle to speak this evening. Thank you very much, gavin, katherine, and sarah, for arranging this talk. And i want to say thank you very much to the Massachusetts Historical Society for this wonderful opportunity. I have been using mhs resources for years, and their collections, their exhibitions, their programs, and their staff are outstanding. Thank you, mhs. So tonight i am talking about Penelope Pelham winslow. And i as a historian study early american women because i really feel theyve been significantly underrepresented in the telling of americas story. And if im not hearing about how half the population laid the foundations for helped lay the foundations for this country, wer
Founded in the early 17th century, the Massachusetts Bay colony had a predominantly puritan population. Up next, we hear a presentation from the Nantucket Historical association about the history of the new england settlement and the period when quaker missionaries arrived. What we wanted to do today theres going to be a merging of styles. I need to turn you into puritans, if you are to understand where we are going to go with the quakers. I taught freshman english for six years. One of my courses was on sensored books in the 1950s. I realized, my students were young and came from a different moral climate. My students were so very young that payton place was not shocking to them at all. I needed to understand just how radical the novel was. So were going to take a little time to give you the puritan mentality so when the quakers enter your world you can understand how frightening it is. Were going to be looking at a time when the world was turned upside down between the year 1649 and
Up next a conversation with the author of the book, Penelope Winslow 17th century Plymouth Colony. The Massachusetts Historical Society provided the video. We have a special event this evening. Well explore the life of Plymouth Colony first lady Penelope Winslow. Our speaker tonight is Michelle Marchetti coughlin. She is the author of one colonial womans world, the life and writing and the book shell be speaking on tonight. Penelope winslow. She recently served as the guest curator, women of plymouth and as a mass humanity scholar with the Falmouth Museum on the green. She serves on the board of adams birthplace and Museum Administrator of bostons gibson house museum. Without further ado please join me in welcoming michelle to speak this evening. Thank you very much gavin, katherine and sarah for arranging this talk. I want to say thank you very much to the Massachusetts Historical Society for this wonderful opportunity. I have been using mhss resources for years, and their collections
Convictions and to justify the revolutionary war. This top was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible here in washington d. C. Its 45 minutes. Our Third Session today is the bible of the American Revolution with james bird. And this presentation, based on his latest book, james bird shows that the bible was a key text of the American Revolution, and when war came to the colonies, preachers and patriots alike turned to the bible, not only for solace but for expectations to fight. Such scripture helped amateur soldiers overcome their natural aversion to killing, can furred on those who died for the revolution, the halo of martyrdom. And he gave americans a sense of the Divine Providence of their calls. In this session, doctor bird will examine specific biblical texts and how they were used, especially in making the patriotic calls for war. Case reward. Transporters chair of the graduate department of religion an associate professor of american religious history at vanderbi