Boston Athenæum
Special Interest
The Boston Athenæum, a membership library, first opened its doors in 1807, and its rich history as a library and cultural institution has been well documented in the annals of Boston’s cultural life. Today, it remains a vibrant and active institution that serves a wide variety of members and scholars. With more than 600,000 titles in its book collection, the Boston Athenæum functions as a public library for many of its members, with a large and distinguished circulating collection, a newspaper and magazine reading room, quiet spaces and rooms for reading and researching, a children’s library, and wireless internet access throughout its building. The Art Department mounts three exhibitions per year in the institution's Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery, rotating selections in the Recent Acquisitions Gallery, and a number of less formal installations in places and cases around the building. The Special Collections resources are world-renowned, and include maps, manuscripts, rare books, and archival materials. Our Conservation Department works to preserve all our collections. Other activities for members and the public include lectures, panel discussions, poetry readings, musical performances, films, and special events, many of which are followed by receptions. Members are able to take advantage of our second- and fifth-floor terraces during fine weather, and to search electronic databases and our digital collections from their homes and offices.
Location:
Boston, MA
Description:
The Boston Athenæum, a membership library, first opened its doors in 1807, and its rich history as a library and cultural institution has been well documented in the annals of Boston’s cultural life. Today, it remains a vibrant and active institution that serves a wide variety of members and scholars. With more than 600,000 titles in its book collection, the Boston Athenæum functions as a public library for many of its members, with a large and distinguished circulating collection, a newspaper and magazine reading room, quiet spaces and rooms for reading and researching, a children’s library, and wireless internet access throughout its building. The Art Department mounts three exhibitions per year in the institution's Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery, rotating selections in the Recent Acquisitions Gallery, and a number of less formal installations in places and cases around the building. The Special Collections resources are world-renowned, and include maps, manuscripts, rare books, and archival materials. Our Conservation Department works to preserve all our collections. Other activities for members and the public include lectures, panel discussions, poetry readings, musical performances, films, and special events, many of which are followed by receptions. Members are able to take advantage of our second- and fifth-floor terraces during fine weather, and to search electronic databases and our digital collections from their homes and offices.
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/
Email:
av@bostonathenaeum.org
Lisa Napoli, Ellen Clegg, & Margaret Low, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Founding Mothers of NPR"
Duration:00:54:17
Peter S. Canellos and Farah Stockman, "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan"
Duration:00:54:12
Louis Menand and Maya Jasanoff, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"
Duration:00:54:29
Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism"
Duration:00:56:24
Akhil Reed Amar, "The Words that Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840"
Duration:00:56:15
Martha S. Jones and Karen Holmes Ward, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers"
Duration:00:57:47
Robert Mrazek, "The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter"
Duration:00:57:09
Diana Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art"
Duration:00:58:48
Don Hagist, "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution"
Duration:01:06:40
Boston Art Song Society, "Art Songs of Black American Composers"
Duration:01:26:52
Emma Smith and Stephen Greenblatt, "This is Shakespeare"
Duration:00:58:53
Ralph Keyes, "The Hidden History of Coined Words"
Duration:00:55:08
Annalee Newitz and Sarah Parcak, "Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age"
Duration:00:58:49
Jamal Greene and Randall Kennedy, "How Rights Went Wrong"
Duration:00:56:47
Janice P. Nimura, "The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women"
Duration:00:55:27
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America"
Duration:00:56:48
John Matteson and Amy Cherry, "A Worse Place Than Hell: How Fredericksburg Changed a Nation"
Duration:00:57:03
Bettye Kearse, "The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family"
Duration:00:57:53
Robert Darnton and John Buchtel, "Pirating and Publishing"
Duration:01:05:44
Alice Baumgartner, "South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War"
Duration:01:00:25