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Thursday, April 17, 2008  

Stated meeting.

3:00 p.m. 

Open to the public.   

Marla Miller of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will speak on her recent book The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution. Followed by discussion and light refreshments.

Friday, May 2, 2008   
Graduate Students’ Forum

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Open to the public.

 


Presentations of current research by nine graduate students in early American history with concluding remarks by Gary Nash, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. A light lunch will be served.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Special meeting

3:00 p.m.

 



Daniel R. Coquillette, J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor, Boston College, and Lester Kissell Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, will speak on “Portrait of a Patriot: Josiah Quincy, Jr., and his Southern Journal.” Followed by discussion and light refreshments.

 

Book Sale 

2:00-6:00 p.m.

Open to members and guests.

Great Books at Great Prices

One-day sale at deep discounts of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts long backlist (titles dating from 1910 to 1995).

Volumes will be priced at $10, $5, and $1.

Cash or check only. Sorry, no credit cards.

Excluded from the sale are all titles marked “Out of print,” “Contact UPressVA,” “Contact Oak Knoll Books,” and The Complete Works of William Billings.

Quantities are limited.

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Saturday, June 7, 2008
Omohundro Conference

11:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Open to conference registrants.


1:00-3:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:30-5:30 p.m.

The Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture will be held at Suffolk University, June 6-8, 2008. On Saturday, June 7, two afternoon sessions will convene at the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 87 Mount Vernon Street, Boston. The Society’s 1806 Charles Bulfinch-designed house will be open for visits by conference registrants from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

Session 6 ● All the King’s Men: New Perspectives on the Loyalists

Chair: Ronald Hoffman, Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

John Murray, Fourth Earl of Dunmore: A Case for the Biographical Exploration of Empire
James Corbett David, College of William and Mary

Voyagers to the Rest: Loyalist Refugees in the British Empire
Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University

“People of a ranglesome nature”: Loyal Black Methodists in Revolutionary Virginia
Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney

Comment: Rhys Isaac, La Trobe University


Session 10 ● New England’s Revolution: Impacts and Outcomes

Chair: John Resch, University of New Hampshire, Manchester

Fighting for Independence: The Importance of Region
Daniel Scott Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Enemy Within: Loyalists, Language, and Power in Revolutionary New Hampshire
Gregory T. Knouff, Keene State College

After the Revolution: The Impact and Experience of Veterans on the Maine Frontier
Walter L. Sargent, University of Maine, Farmington

Comment: Richard Buel, Jr., Wesleyan University

To register for the Omohundro Conference, visit  http://oieahc.wm.edu/

 

September or October 2008

Book Sale

One-day sale at deep discounts of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts long backlist (titles dating from 1910 to 1995) will be held for book dealers in September or October 2008. Date and time TBA.

 

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Annual Meeting and Dinner

For Members only

 

 

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Stated meeting.               

3:00 p.m.                                  
Open to the public.

 

 

Speaker TBA.Followed by discussion and light refreshments.

    

 

 

 

 

 

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