Programs
Campus Tours at the Museums (May-Oct)
May 24th – October 18th, 2024
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday
We also host historical walking tours year round. Click here for the current schedule of historical walking tours.
For special events, see below.
"Why Didn't I Know About This?": Stories of Women's History
Joseph Starita, “A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesOn March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree―becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to […]
Dava Sobel, “The Glass Universe”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesPART OF THE 'WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS?' SERIES OF LECTURES ON WOMEN'S HISTORY, SPONSORED BY MASSHUMANITIES In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and […]
