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Intergenerational Program
Museum Program

APS Neighborhood Fun Day

11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. ET
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Lunch at the Library

City of Knowledge: Science, Place, Power

Featuring
Susan Brandt and Domenic Vitiello
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
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Public Lecture

Rome and America: Edward Gibbon and the American Revolution

Featuring
Linda Colley
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. ET
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Indigenous Learning Forum

The Four Corners Potato: Indigenous Subsistence and Agricultural Legacy on the Colorado Plateau

Featuring
Cynthia Wilson and Alastair Bitsoi
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
John William Nelson
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar

A Renegades’ History of the Revolutionary Frontier: Contesting Race and Nation in the Early American West

Featuring
John William Nelson
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Marcia McNutt
America's Scientific Revolutionaries

Weathering Crisis: Revisiting James Madison’s Contributions to Climate and Citizen Science – A Conversation with Marcia McNutt

Featuring
Marcia McNutt
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. ET
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Indigenous Learning Forum

Rarámuri Territory: Colonial Continuities and Indigenous Fugitivity in the context of Drug Trafficking in the Tarahumara mountain, Northern Mexico

Featuring
Fatima del Rocio Valdivia Ramirez
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
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Publishing Salon

Writing and Publishing "Difficult" Books

Featuring
Alia Hanna Habib, Laura B. McGrath, Nathaniel Popkin, Declan Spring
5:30–7:00 p.m.
These Truths: The Declarations of Independence
Museum Program

Exhibition Opening – "These Truths: The Declarations of Independence"

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
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Public Lecture

Celebrating Enlightenment Values in 2026: the Example of Voltaire and Slavery

Featuring
Nicholas Cronk
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
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Indigenous Learning Forum

Who Were Harvard's First Indigenous Students?

Featuring
Alan Niles, Mack Scott and Wanda Hopkins
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
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Museum Program

Transcribing The Revolutionary City

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. ET