Thursday, October 25, 2018, 6:00-7:30 p.m.,
Modern Theatre
Public commemorations have become a difficult business in recent years, often provoking sharp conflict about the meaning and implications of the past. With the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in Plymouth fast approaching, the Congregational Library and Archives joins Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University in sponsoring an important conversation about remembering and memorializing that event, bringing together leading scholars of Puritanism and Native American history.
Presenters:
Jean O’Brien, University of Minnesota, a White Earth Ojibwe and author of Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (2010)
Lisa Blee, Wake Forest University, author of Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice (2014)
David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School, author of A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Pubic Life in New England (2011)
Marty Blatt, Professor of the Practice in History and Director of Public History Program at Northeastern
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