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53:35

Researching Your Scottish Ancestors (April 9th, 2025)

50:07

Nuf Ced: The Story of Michael McGreevy, Baseball’s First Superfan

53:38

Art in the Cradle of Liberty (3/12/25)

1:11:24

Researching Chinese Ancestry with My China Roots (February 27th, 2025)

46:32

Emancipation in Massachusetts (2/26/25)

49:58

African American Mariners in The Revolutionary War (2/12/25)

1:07:36

The American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party (4/10/24)

1:10:54

Boston’s Lost Bunker Hill Cyclorama (1/29/25)

59:33

Mapping a City Under Siege: Henry Pelham (1/15/25)

49:08

Genealogy: Using Obituaries to Research Your Ancestors (Dec 18, 2024)

1:02:17

Putting Family History on the Map (December 11th, 2024)

1:05:11

Introducing My China Roots: A New Database for Researching Chinese Ancestors at the BPL (11/21/2024)

56:04

Genealogy: Researching Your Native American Ancestors (November 20th, 2024)

1:14:30

Genealogy Databases You Can Use from Home (October 9th, 2024)

1:03:22

Using Immigration and Naturalization Records to Research Your Ancestors (September 26th, 2024)

1:09:30

The Right to Read: Ensuring Access to Books for Everyone, Everywhere

51:51

A Conversation with Beverly Jenkins!

1:05:40

Author Talk: Malia C. Lazu - February 6th, 2024

1:10:28

Genealogy: BPL Databases & Other Electronic Resources (June 6th, 2024)

1:12:23

Genealogy: Researching Your Irish Ancestors (May 24th, 2024)

1:20:09

Introducing My China Roots: A New Database for Researching Chinese Ancestors at the BPL (5/1/2024)

32:12

Their Dreams, Their Rights, Their Love: Exploring Beacon Hill and Boston’s LGBTQ+ History (4/24/24)

1:20:54

Introduction to Genealogy & BPL Resources (April 17th, 2024)

1:28:11

Boston Women Claim the Vote: Uncovering Stories from the 1920 Women's Voter Register (4/11/24)

1:45:26

Reclaiming Folk: Celebrating People of Color in Folk Music

1:06:50

The Great Bengal Famine and the Boston Tea Party (3/27/24)

55:47

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box (3/13/24)

1:01:12

Scientists in the Harbor: Stories of Discovery from the Boston Harbor Island (2/28/24)

47:14

Boston’s Black Musical History (2/14/24)

1:29:47

Basic Military Records at the National Archives: Revolutionary War to 1917 (March 28th, 2024)

1:08:53

Genealogy: Researching Your Female Ancestors (Marth 14th, 2024)

1:28:09

Author Dennis Lehane in conversation with David Leonard about novel Small Mercies

52:29

Revolutionary Boston: Henry Knox and the Siege (1/17/24)

59:12

Abolition in Boston: John Brown’s Boston (1/31/24)

57:37

Genealogy: Using Vital Records to Research Your Ancestors (December 20th, 2023)

1:26:02

2023 Druker Award & Lecture: David Manfredi

1:01:19

Genealogy: Using Newspapers to Research Your Ancestors (November 8th, 2023)

1:13:50

Using Church & Cemetery Records to Research Your Ancestors (October 19th, 2023)

1:23:12

Putting Family History On The Map (October 11th, 2023)

52:34

Cranberries: New England's Bounty with Anthony M. Sammarco (November 16th, 2023)

1:03:44

Conversation with MAAH Stone Book Award Winner Thulani Davis

59:39

Genealogy: Using Ancestry Library Edition (September 21st, 2023)

58:30

Genealogy: Using School Records to Research Your Ancestors (June 22nd, 2023)

1:11:58

Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston

53:33

Genealogy: Using Directories to Research Your Ancestors (May 18th, 2023)

1:22:52

On the Job: Researching Your Ancestors Who Worked in the Public Sector (May 9th, 2023)

47:19

Bunker Hill: Monument & Memory (4/26/23)

1:00:46

History of the Hub: Resources for Local and Family History at the Boston City Archives

1:00:58

Genealogy: Researching Ancestors Who Served in the U.S. Civil War (April 20th, 2023)

46:11

Environmental Justice and the Boston Harbor Islands (3/29/23)

1:04:07

Temples of Refuge: Boston, New Bedford, and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (4/12/23)

1:05:46

East Boston Through Time (March 31st, 2021)

1:02:22

Battle Green Vietnam : The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston (May 26th, 2021)

1:04:24

Annie McKay and the Untold Story of Boston Public School Nurses (March 3rd, 2021)

1:07:40

Lost Wonderland (January 20th, 2021)

54:50

Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (February 24th, 2021)

1:07:01

Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them (May 19th, 2021)

47:53

A History of Theater on Cape Cod (September 15th, 2021)

1:02:43

Jan Brogan—The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice (October 6th, 2021)

54:13

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate (November 10th, 2021)

1:04:32

Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (May 4th, 2022)

1:04:47

Bill Lichtenstein—WBCN and the American Revolution (May 25th, 2022)

1:05:31

Kenmore Square and the Fenway of Boston Through Time (June 9th, 2022)

1:10:22

Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion: An American Story (October 5th, 2022)

1:11:31

Genealogy: BPL Databases and Other Electronic Resources (March 30th, 2023)

56:27

Face to Face with Nature Itself: Forest Festivals and the 19th Century Fight for Climate Justice

1:03:10

Boston: An Underground Railroad Hub (2/15/23)

48:11

Jane Mecom — Widow Witness to the Revolution in Boston (3/15/23)

55:29

Elena Palladino - Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin (March 9th, 2023)

1:15:15

Conversation with MAAH Stone Book Award Winner: Howard W. French

1:13:12

Genealogy: U.S. Military Records (December 14th, 2022)

1:10:56

Genealogy: Newspapers & Print Resources at the BPL (November 16th, 2022)

1:06:38

Genealogy: Researching Female Ancestors (April 20th, 2022)

1:08:03

Jewish Genealogy for Descendants of Holocaust Survivors (May 12th, 2022)

58:50

Genealogy: Newspapers and Print Resources (November 17th, 2021)

1:01:39

Genealogy: Researching Adopted Ancestors (June 16th, 2022)

1:30:44

Putting Family History On The Map (June 29th, 2022)

47:01

Genealogy: Using the Census to Research Your Ancestors (September 13th, 2022)

1:06:30

Genealogy: Using Vital Records to Research Your Ancestors (October 19th, 2022)

1:04:44

The Transatlantic World of Peter Faneuil (2/1/23)

48:45

Environmental and Climate Justice in Beacon Hill (1/18/23)

1:02:11

Author Talk: Madeline Ostrander — At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

1:06:25

Queer Oral History 101

59:32

Sargent Keeping Faith: Church and Synagogue 1919

2:41

Special Collections Reopening September 2022

1:01:22

The Digital Traces of Pregnancy: Privacy and Reproductive Rights

1:11:34

Fight Like Hell Virtual Author Talk

1:27:50

Book Bans and Challenges on the Rise

1:00:30

Sourcing the Madonna of Sorrows Painting, Sculpture and Sargent’s Spanish Photographs

1:10:34

Reflections on the Restoration of John Singer Sargent's Murals at the Boston Public Library

1:03:30

New Interpretations of Sargent’s Masterwork at Boston Public Library

1:02:44

Haroon Moghul — Two Billion Caliphs A Vision of a Muslim Future

58:47

The Descendants of Darby Vassall on the Legacy of Slavery and Freedom (4/26/22)

1:12:54

Carole Emberton — To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

58:07

Patriots of Color (4/12/22)

1:23:21

ReVisioning History

1:11:19

Pirate or Patriot? (3/29/23)

1:06:00

Fintan O’Toole — We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

51:47

Quarantine on Boston Harbor: the Islands and Public Life (3/15/22)

54:09

"Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny" — The Woman's Tea Party of 1873 (3/1/22)