Public Events
"Thank you for your terrific presentation. Your grasp of the subject is incredible and your presentation was lively and erudite. I have received a lot of compliments this week from those in attendance.”
--Susan Bennett, Director, Lexington Historical Society
Feb. 6, 2023: "A conversation with Ilyon Woo about her book Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journal from Slavery to Freedom"
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.
May 25, 2022: "Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker: A conversation with Thomas Putnam"
Concord Museum, Concord, Mass.
Jan. 23, 2014: "Transcendentalists in our Midst"
New Brook Farm Initiative, West Roxbury, Mass.
Nov. 4, 2013: "New England Transcendentalism"
Dover Lifetime Learning Series
Dover Public Library, Dover, Mass.
Mar. 25, 2012: "'I preach abundant heresies': Theodore Parker in West Roxbury, 1837-1846,"
Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the Theodore Parker Church
Theodore Parker Church, West Roxbury, Mass.
Nov. 3, 2011: "Sowing and Reaping: Biography and the Civil War: Theodore Parker, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln: A Panel with Dean Grodzins, Tony Horwitz, and Michael Burlingame"
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.
Oct. 26, 2011: "Conrad Wright, Perry Miller, and Unitarian History"
Memorial Forum on the "Living Legacy of C. Conrad Wright"
With Dean Grodzins, G. Kim Beach, Elz Curtiss, Gloria Korsman, and David Robinson.
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.
April 13, 2011: "Theodore Parker"
The Unitarian Church in Summit, N.J.
May 23, 2010: "Transient and Permanent: The Death of Theodore Parker (May 10, 1860)"
Theodore Parker Church, West Roxbury, Mass.
Feb. 5, 2010: "Theodore Parker at Two Hundred, 1810-2010"
Cronin Lecture, Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, Mass.
“I am writing on behalf of the Lexington Historical Society to thank you for your terrific presentation …. Your grasp of the subject is incredible and your presentation was lively and erudite. I have received a lot of compliments this week from those in attendance.”
–Susan Bennett [Executive Director, Lexington Historical Society] to Dean Grodzins, 9 Feb. 2010