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Vaughn A. Booker, Jr., Ph.D. showcases the religious lives of jazz greats such as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Mary Lou Williams, and others. RSVP (VIRTUAL)
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New England's colonial meetinghouses embody an important yet little-known chapter in American history. Built mostly with tax money, they served as...
Women have long been the subject of art, often depicted as nothing more than objects of desire. How do images of women change when women become the cr...
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading "Stony the Road," by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. A challeng...
The native Abenaki people played a central role in the history of the Monadnock region, defending it against English settlement and forcing the ...
Drawing on research from her book, Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire, the Present, the Past, and the Future, Rebecca Rule regales audi...
The Stono Rebellion has been called the most important slave revolt in North American history. In this lecture, Damian Costello examines the events an...
Quilts tell stories, and quilt history is full of myths and misinformation as well as heart-warming tales of service and tradition. Nearly every world...
In its third Expanding the Canon playreading circle, theatre KAPOW will host a free study of five works by contemporary Native playwrights. This month...
It has been a year since NH Legislators joined a wave of states across the country to pass laws prohibiting teaching critical perspectives on historie...
From Brooklyn to Boston, from World War II to the present, Jason Sokol traces the modern history of race and politics in the Northeast. Why did white ...
American slavery divided not just the North from the South, but also northerners from each other. In the mid-1830s, the emergence of an aggressive abo...
As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives Book Groups, we're reading "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith. Zadie Smith&rsquo...
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Thursday night's Humanities to Go program “12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State,” presented by Robert Goodby and hosted by @NesmithLibrary in Windham, has been postponed to 2/21 at 6:30 PM due to impending weather. Stay safe out there, everyone! pic.twitter.com/oaCpAnCJrA— New Hampshire Humanities (@NHHumanities) January 19, 2023
Thursday night's Humanities to Go program “12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State,” presented by Robert Goodby and hosted by @NesmithLibrary in Windham, has been postponed to 2/21 at 6:30 PM due to impending weather. Stay safe out there, everyone! pic.twitter.com/oaCpAnCJrA
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Posted: December 21st, 2022
On a brisk morning in October, a small group of women came to class in the basement of the International Institute of New England (IINE) in Manchester. Coming from El Salvador, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal, and Vietnam, the women are not only learning critical content for Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) jobs in a healthcare field ravaged by the pandemic, but are learning English in the process.
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