Historic Somerville

Historian and author Barbara F. Berenson will present her new book, Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution. 

Inspired by their Patriot forefathers and nurtured in the nation’s “cradle of liberty,” Boston's abolitionists sparked a Second American Revolution – this one intended to force the nation to live up to the promises of liberty and equality contained in the Declaration of Independence. Come hear Berenson's lively description of these times that changed the fate of our nation.

Berenson is the author of Walking Tours of Civil War Boston: Hub of Abolitionism, an official Guidebook of the Freedom Trail Foundation (2011, 2nd ed. 2014).  She is co-editor of Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts (2012). 

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Berenson works as a senior attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. 



Books will be for sale and signing at the Museum.

The lecture will be held at

The Somerville Museum

One Westwood Road

Somerville, MA 02143

General Admission: $8; free to members of Historic Somerville. Reception to Follow. Buy your tickets now.

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