Hingham Historical Lecture Series Starts This Weekend

Starting this weekend, the Hingham Historical Society will host a series of lectures on the theme of “Native Homelands/Settler Colonialism.”

The talks will take place on Sunday afternoons at the Hingham Heritage Museum but also on Zoom. Some of the speakers will be present, and others speaking from their homes.

Launching the series on Sunday, 23 September, is Prof. Alan Taylor speaking about “Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the American Revolution.”

Taylor is one of the most respected historians of Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary America today, as well as one of the most productive. Originally from Maine, he wrote The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution in 2006. Taylor won Pulitzer Prizes for William Cooper’s Town in 1996 and The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 in 2014.

Here are the upcoming talks.

• 6 November: Robert Miller, “The International Law of Colonialism and New England”
• 4 December: David S. Jones, “Epidemics, Conflict, and Caregiving during the Colonization of New England” 
• 22 January 2023: Virginia D. Anderson, “Native Americans, English Colonists, and Strange Beasts” 
• 26 March: Jean M. O’Brien, “Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence”
• 23 April: Lisa Brooks, “A New History of King Philip’s War”

A subscription to all six lectures in person or by video costs $175, or $150 for Hingham Historical Society members.