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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

March 2013

March 20, 2013 to March 24, 2013

Virginia Festival of the Book

The Virginia Festival of the Book is a 5-day festival of mostly free literary events that are open to the public as we honor book culture and promote reading and literacy.

March 15, 2013

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

Hear the story of Woodie Guthrie’s creative energy, personal imperfections and family tragedy.

March 12, 2013

The Storm That Swept Mexico

The Storm That Swept Mexico tells the epic story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.

March 8, 2013 to March 9, 2013

Winter Weekend 2013: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Maine Humanities Council hosts Winter Weekend, a humanities experience that brings together historians, writers, artists, public intellectuals, and others for a weekend of discussion of Dickens' Great Expectations.

March 1, 2013

MYSTERY! A Conversation with David Lindsey and Archer Mayor

Humanities Texas and the Harry Ransom Center will present MYSTERY! a conversation with two New York Times bestselling mystery authors David Lindsey and Archer Mayor, moderated by Karen Olsson, author of Waterloo and a contributing editor for Texas Monthly.

February 2013

February 20, 2013 to April 5, 2013

Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War

Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, a traveling exhibition, examines how President Abraham Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War – the secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties.

February 16, 2013 to June 9, 2013

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

An exhibition exploring the presence of Africans and their descendants in Europe from the late 1400s to the early 1600s and the roles these individuals played in society as reflected in art.

February 10, 2013 to May 19, 2013

Wari: Pre-Inca Lords of Peru

Wari’s capital is one of the largest archaeological sites in South America. From AD 600 and 1000, its denizens created an exhilarating episode in the history of the Americas by forging a society now widely regarded as one of the western hemisphere’s first empires.

 

February 2, 2013 to April 28, 2013

1968: The Year that Rocked America

The social forces that swirled through the turbulent 1960s crested in 1968. It was a turning point for a generation coming of age and a nation at war.
February 2, 2013 to April 14, 2013

Carnaval!

The sights and sounds of Carnaval in New Orleans, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Trinidad, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland.

January 2013

January 24, 2013 to May 24, 2013

Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story

A groundbreaking retrospective of the works of African American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-1998)

January 18, 2013 to February 28, 2013

Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War

Traveling exhibition explores how Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the war—the secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties.

December 2012

December 5, 2012 to March 31, 2013

Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s

Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s showcases six Depression-era expositions that brought visions of a brighter future to tens of millions of Americans.

November 2012

November 15, 2012 to March 10, 2013

For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

For All The World To See is the first comprehensive museum exhibition to explore the historic role played by visual image

October 2012

October 19, 2012 to April 28, 2013

American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Step back in time to an era of flappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance lobbyists, and real-life legends like Al Capone and Carry Nation.

September 2012

September 28, 2012 to February 24, 2013

Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Boston Public Library partner to present the first major exhibition on the Guastavino Company and its architectural and historical legacy.