History

Sean C. Kim, Professor of History, University of Central Missouri Ilisa Barbash, Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University South Korea has recently jumped onto the global stage through its economic rise...

Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series Lecture by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France (Paris), Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Society The arrival of Homo sapiens in the mid-latitudes of Eurasia 48,000 to 45,000 years ago and the...

Join Boston City Archaeologist Joe Bagley for a presentation on archaeological research that is deepening our understanding of Boston’s role in the American Revolution. Bagley shares new findings on the impact of the Siege of Boston and the 1775 Battle of...

2025 Tatiana Proskouriakoff Lecture When the looting and illicit trade of cultural artifacts surged In the 1960s, one voice rose in defense of archaeological sites in the Americas—Clemency Coggins. A pioneering art historian and legendary figure in Maya...

Lecture by Christina Warinner, Professor of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Milk is both ancient and enigmatic. First transformed into dairy products over 9,000 years ago in the Near East, its production required the...

Wendel A. White, Distinguished Professor of Art, Stockton University; 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University Cheryl Finley, Inaugural Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History +...

Pat Courtney Gold, Sally bag, "Honor the 1805 Wasco Weaver." PM 2003.24.1 Pat Courtney Gold, Wasco-Wishram, grew up on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon and became a professional mathematician. Inspired in part by the Peabody's "Sally Bag," possibly...

Visual artist Wendel A. White photographs objects, documents, and books held in public collections to explore the complexities of American history, slavery, abolition, concepts of race, and Black life and culture. In this program, marking the upcoming...

Watch the video on YouTube Mexican authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Salvador Novo, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, and Rosario Castellanos, among others, have sought to use language to explore and recover the links between Mexico’s Indigenous...