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Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
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Annual conference and publication exploring the folklife of New England and the neighboring regions, founded in 1976 and now meeting each summer at Historic Deerfield
Thanks to generous donors, we have a limited number of free registrations available for university students. If you’re researching the memory of the American Revolution, check out the program for our June 27–28 conference in Deerfield and online: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...
June 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Folks arriving early for our “Remembering the Revolution” conference on Friday morning, June 27, can sign up for a walking tour of Revolutionary sites around Historic Deerfield and a special viewing of Revolutionary materials in the Memorial Libraries – dublin-seminar.org/2025-dublin-...
June 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Our keynote speaker on June 27 will be Zara Anishanslin, who’ll introduce her new book, “The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution.” Why do we remember some Revolutionary artists and not others? dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...
June 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
New England is dotted with stones marking the “Knox Trail” from Fort Ticonderoga to greater Boston. Some even mark the route that Henry Knox took in 1776.

At our June 27–28 conference in Deerfield, Ben Haley will dig into the history of this commemoration: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...
June 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Remember the American Revolution by playing it on your piano! Alexander Cade, assistant curator at the Museum of the American Revolution, speaks on how illustrated parlor music shaped American national identity in 1800s New England at our June 27–28 conference, “Remembering the Revolution”!
June 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
How did New England women use material culture to give meaning to the Bunker Hill Monument in the 1840s? And in the 1940s? Prof. Sarah J. Purcell @sarahjpurcell.bsky.social analyzes that at our “Remembering the Revolution” conference in Deerfield, June 27–28. dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...
May 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Presentations scheduled for our June 27–28 “Remembering the Revolution” conference include “Misremembering April 19th,” “The ‘Real’ Knox Trail,” and “Recovering New England’s Voices: Revolutionary War Veterans of Color.” Register to attend in person or online! dublin-seminar.org/2025-dublin-...
May 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Our conference’s June 27 keynote speaker will be Zara Anishanslin, author of “Portrait of a Woman in Silk.” She’ll introduce her new book, “The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution.” dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...
May 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Folks arriving early for our “Remembering the Revolution” conference on Friday morning, June 27, can sign up for a walking tour of Revolutionary sites around Historic Deerfield and a special viewing of Revolutionary materials in the Memorial Libraries – dublin-seminar.org/2025-dublin-...
May 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Dublin Seminar trustees and speakers well represented in the spring 2024 issue of the “Winterthur Portfolio.”

Contents table and links to articles (for subscribers) here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/wp/current
December 18, 2024 at 11:09 PM