all souls
historical society
Honor the Past, Celebrate the Present, Shape the Future
Events
For Upcoming Events sponsored or co-sponsored by the Historical Society,
check the All Souls website calendar.
Past Historical Society Events
203rd Anniversary Weekend, November 18-20, 2022.
Dinners-in-homes on Friday evening; Anniversary Sunday, November 20.
The Bellows Lecture, November 13, 2022
Professor Lydia Ciollo: “Strange Bedfellows? Henry David Thoreau and Unitarianism"
Book Talk, given at our Annual Meeting, October 16, 2022
Robert K. Sutton: Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era
The Channing Lecture, May 22, 2022
Rev. Natalie Fenimore: Widening the Circle to Welcome the Future
The Bellows Lecture, Nov. 14, 2021
Dr. Christopher Cameron: Unitarianism, African Americans and Abolitionism
Sanctuary Tour, Oct. 31, 2021
Laura Pederson: Sanctuary Tour
History Talk, Sept. 19, 2021
Laura Pedersen: Herman Melville's Unitarian Compass
The Bellows Lecture, Nov. 22, 2020
Dr. Bernard Unti: Henry Bergh: Animal Advocate, New Yorker, Unitarian and Riddle of the 19th Century
Recording available here and bibliography
The Bicentennial Lecture, Nov. 13, 2019
Professor Linn Carey Mehta: Catharine Sedgwick, Herman Melville and All Souls
The Channing Lecture, Jan. 2019:
Rev. John Buehrens: Conflagration: How Transcendentalists sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender and Social Justice
All Souls 175th Anniversary Service, 1994