Humanities to Go List of Current Programs

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12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State   (Robert Goodby)

1623: Finally, the Truth about NH's Forgotten Founding Family   (J. Dennis Robinson)

A Soldier's Mother Tells Her Story   (Sharon Wood)

A Taste of the Old Country in the New: Franco Americans of Manchester   (Robert Perrault)

A Visit with Abraham Lincoln   (Steve Wood)

A Visit with Queen Victoria   (Sally Mummey)

A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes   (Adair Mulligan)

Abby Hutchinson's Sweet Freedom Songs: Songs and Stories for Abolition and Women's Suffrage   (Deborah Anne Goss)

Abolitionists of Noyes Academy   (Dan Billin)

African-American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire during the American Revolution   (Glenn Knoblock)

All Eyes Are Upon Us: Racial Struggles in the Northeast, from Jackie Robinson to Deval Patrick   (Jason Sokol)

An Introduction to Sufism, the Spiritual Path to Islam   (Mohamed Defaa)

Banishing Audience Demons and Reader Ghosts Through Mindful Writing   (Alexandria Peary)

Banjos, Bones, and Ballads   (Jeff Warner)

Bearing Witness and the Endurance of Voice   (Shanta Lee Gander)

Before Peyton Place: In Search of the Real Grace Metalious   (Robert Perrault)

Beginner’s Mind for Writing: How to Start Anything through Mindful Writing   (Alexandria Peary)

Benedict Arnold, Patriot (and Traitor)   (George Morrison)

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England   (Thomas Hubka)

Brewing in New Hampshire: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State   (Glenn Knoblock)

Burnt into Memory: How Brownfield Faced the Fire   (Jo Radner)

Caesar: The Man from Venus   (Sebastian Lockwood)

Case Closed on the 1873 Smuttynose Ax Murders   (J. Dennis Robinson)

Comics in World History and Cultures   (Marek Bennett)

Contra Dancing in New Hampshire Then and Now   (Dudley Laufman)

Corbin’s “Animal Garden”   (Mary Kronenwetter)

Covered Bridges of New Hampshire - Past and Present   (Kim Varney Chandler)

Digging into Native History in New Hampshire   (Robert Goodby)

Discovering New England Stone Walls   (Kevin Gardner)

Drawing Community: Creating Comics from Shared Stories   (Marek Bennett)

Ernest Harold Baynes: New Hampshire's Own Doctor Doolittle   (Mary Kronenwetter)

Ethical Aspects of Converging Technologies   (Herman Tavani)

Exemplary Country Estates of New Hampshire   (Cristina Ashjian)

Extreme Survival: Lessons From Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds   (Michael Tougias)

Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs   (Marina Forbes)

Family Stories: How and Why to Remember and Tell Them   (Jo Radner)

Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories   (Maura MacNeil)

Fierce Females: Women in Art   (Jane Oneail)

Flight of Remembrance: From WWII in Europe to the U.S. Space Program   (Marina Kirsch)

From Guns to Gramophones: Civil War and the Technology that Shaped America   (Carrie Brown)

From Mickey to Magoo: The Golden Age of American Animation   (Margo Burns)

Galileo Galilei, the Starry Messenger   (Michael Francis)

Global Banjar: International Voices in Antebellum Banjo Music   (Marek Bennett)

Gluskabe: The Magical, Powerful Culture Hero Central to Wabanaki Storytelling   (Anne Jennison)

God, the Early Years: A Brief History of God in the Rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam   (Nicole Ruane)

Granite Gallows: The Origin of New Hampshire's Debate Over the Death Penalty   (Chris Benedetto)

Granite State Gallery: New Hampshire Art and Artists Through the Years   (Jane Oneail)

Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire's State Dog, the Chinook   (Bob Cottrell)

Having a Fine Time in Manchester: Vintage Post Cards and Local History   (Robert Perrault)

Henry Dearborn — From Captain to Cabinet Secretary   (Geoge Morrison)

Heroes and Homecomings: Norman Rockwell and World War II   (Jane Oneail)

Historic Lighthouses and Keepers of New Hampshire & Southern Maine   (Jeremy D'Entremont)

History and Mystery: A Genealogy Starter Guide   (Erin Moulton)

Homer's Odysseus   (Sebastian Lockwood)

Hooked: Narratives of Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption   (Katherine Gaudet)

How Did the Greeks Believe their Myths?   (R. Scott Smith)

How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940   (Thomas Hubka)

In the Evil Day: A Small Town in New Hampshire and the Crime That Stunned the Nation   (Richard Adams Carey)

Introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright and NH's Usonian Architecture   (Jane Oneail)

Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Memory and Meaning   (Mary C. Kelly)

Jennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares   (Jenna Carroll)

John Winant: New Hampshire Man of the World   (Richard Hesse)

Jonathan Harrington - 19th Century Magician   (Andrew Pinard)

Lafayette and Human Rights   (Alan Hoffman)

Lafayette and the Farewell Tour: Odyssey of an American Idol   (Alan Hoffman)

Last of the Granite State Rattlesnakes   (Dan Billin)

Late in Arriving, How Electricity Changed Rural New Hampshire Life   (Steve Taylor)

Liberty is Our Motto! Songs and Stories of the Hutchinson Family Singers   (Steve Blunt)

Live Free or Die: The Contested History of the Words on your License Plate   (Dan Billin)

Maple: New Hamphire’s Medicine of Connection   (Damian Costello)

Mary Baker Eddy: New Hampshire’s Most Important Religious Thinker   (Nicole Ruane)

Mary Todd Lincoln: An Unconventional Woman   (Sally Mummey)

Meet Lucy Stone: Enter the Antebellum World of the Abolition and Women's Rights Movements   (Judith Black)

Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire   (Rebecca Rule)

Movie Mavericks: Filmmakers who Challenge the Hollywood System   (Patrick D. Anderson)

Murder in Plain Sight? An Abenaki/Settler Mystery on the New England Frontier   (Damian Costello)

Music in my Pockets: Family Fun in Folk Music   (Jeff Warner)

New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them   (Jeremy D'Entremont)

New England's Colonial Meetinghouses and their Impact on American Society   (Paul Wainwright)

New Hampshire Abolitionist Nathaniel Peabody Rogers   (Rebecca Noel)

New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones   (Glenn Knoblock)

New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Weathervanes of the Granite State   (Glenn Knoblock)

New Hampshire on Skis   (E. John B. Allen)

New Hampshire Roads Taken—Or Not   (Steve Taylor)

New Hampshire’s One Room Rural Schools: The Romance and the Reality   (Steve Taylor)

Norman Rockwell: Inclusion, Exclusion & Representing America   (Jane Oneail)

"Now Who Shall Judge the Indians?": How 500 Years of Colonization Has Impacted the Abenaki Peoples of New Hampshire and the Northeast   (Anne Jennison)

Oil, Ice and Bone: Arctic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom   (Helen Frink)

Our National Thanksgiving: With Thanks to President Lincoln and Mrs. Hale   (Steve Wood)

Philosophy for Everyone   (Timm Triplett)

Present Moment, Prolific Moment: Using Mindfulness to Write   (Alexandria Peary)

Putting Human Faces on the Textile Industry: The Workers of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company   (Robert Perrault)

Rally 'Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong   (Marek Bennett)

Range the Wild Woods Over: Loggers’ Songs and Stories   (Jeff Warner)

Redcoats & Rebels: New Hampshire and the American Revolution   (Mary Adams from the New Hampshire Historical Society)

Rethinking the U.S. National Parks   (Abby Goode)

Returning North with the Spring: Retracing the Journey of Naturalist Edwin Way Teale   (John Harris)

Robert Frost on the Farm: New Hampshire farming in 1900 as told by the poet   (Jeffrey Zygmont)

Rome and Pompeii: Discovering and Preserving the Past   (R. Scott Smith)

Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War   (Carrie Brown)

Rudyard Kipling Revisited   (Jackson Gillman)

Russian Daily Life and Culture   (Marina Forbes)

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Bugs Bunny, Bullwinkle, and Big Business in the 1960s   (Margo Burns)

Sinking of the USS Indianapolis: Disaster and Survival in WWII   (Michael Tougias)

Soldiers of Destiny: Ireland's Struggle for Independence, 1598-1998   (Mary C. Kelly)

Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music   (Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki)

Songs of Old New Hampshire   (Jeff Warner)

Stark Decency: New Hampshire’s World War II German Prisoner of War Camp   (Allen Koop)

Strange Terrain: How Not to "Get" Poetry and Let it Get You Instead   (Alice B. Fogel)

Sustainability: An American Literary History   (Abby Goode)

That Reminds Me of a Story   (Rebecca Rule)

That the People May Live: The Life and Legacy of Nicholas Black Elk, Holy Man of the Lakota   (Damian Costello)

The Ballad Lives!   (John Perrault)

The Beginner's Guide to Cemetary Sleuthing   (Erin E. Moulton)

The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us   (Margo Burns)

The Connecticut: New England’s Great River   (Adair Mulligan)

The Epic of Gilgamesh   (Sebastian Lockwood)

The Evolution of Jazz: Seacoast New Hampshire’s Contribution   (Charles Jennison)

The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue   (Michael Tougias)

The First Amendment   (Meg Mott)

The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking?   (Richard Hesse)

The Guitar in Latin America: Continuities, Changes, and Bicultural Strumming   (José Lezcano)

The Hidden History of Lake Winnipesaukee   (Glenn Knoblock)

The History of Agriculture as Told by Barns   (John C. Porter)

The History of Gym Class   (Rebecca Noel)

The History of the Kancamagus Highway   (Glenn Knoblock)

The Making of Strawbery Banke   (J. Dennis Robinson)

The Mammoth Road: New Hampshire Folk Tales as an Avenue to Local History and Culture   (Erin Moulton)

The Middle East   (Mohamed Defaa)

The Old Man: His Life and Legacy   (Inez McDermott)

The Quest for Happiness   (Maria Sanders)

The Rabble Rousing: Mary Harris Jones   (Judith Black)

The Salem Witchcraft Trials and ‘Moldy Bread’: A Case Study in Fake News   (Margo Burns)

The Stono Rebellion   (Damian Costello)

The Strange case of the Laconia: A WWII Story of Disaster, Survival and Cover-up   (Michael Tougias)

The White Mountain Huts   (Allen Koop)

Thirteen Days in October: The Untold Cuban missile Crisis Story   (Michael Tougias)

Town by Town, Watershed by Watershed: Native Americans in NH   (Donna Moody and John Moody)

Traditional Matryoshka Nested Doll Making: From Russia to New England   (Marina Forbes)

Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Archaeology is Changing Old History   (J. Dennis Robinson)

Understanding the Movies: The Art of Film   (Patrick D. Anderson)

Unlaunch'd Voices: An Evening with Walt Whitman   (Stephen Collins)

Upper Valley? How a Newspaper War Created a Virtual State in Western New Hampshire and Eastern Vermont   (Steve Taylor)

Vanished Veterans: An Illustrated Introduction to NH's Civil War Monuments and Memorials   (George Morrison)

Vietnam: Video and Discussion   (Suzanne Brown)

Walking in the Woods with Robert Frost: Seeing nature through the words of America's most-loved poet   (Jeffrey Zygmont)

War, Justice, and Non-Violence: Perspectives and Paradoxes   (Kent McConnell)

What the Declaration of Independence offers U.S. Social Movements   (Meg Mott)

Who Was John Stark?   (Geoge Morrison)

Why Democracy?   (Josh Duclos)

Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages   (Jo Radner)

Words and Pictures: Exploring Ekphrastic Poetry   (Inez McDermott & Maura MacNeil)

Yankee Ingenuity: Stories of Headstrong and Resourceful People   (Jo Radner)

 

 

Open Questions

Open Questions is a series of thought-provoking community conversations presented by New Hampshire Humanities. This series explores essential questions about meaning and life that are important to Granite Staters. Each program is facilitated by philosophy professors who will explore essential questions about meaning and life.

 

Is Capital Punishment Right or Wrong?   (Max Latona & Timm A. Triplett)

Should We Fear Death?   (Kiki Berk)

Are We Working Too Hard?   (Kiki Berk & Joshua Tepley)

Can Machines Think?   (Joshua Tepley)

Does Truth Matter?   (Joshua Tepley)