Our 2025 Conference: “Recalling the Revolution in New England”

Float sponsored by the Telephone Industry in a parade celebrating Boston’s Tercentary in 1930. The centerpiece is a man dressed as Paul Revere, holding the reins of a fake horse under a fake tree.
“Tercentenary, Paul Revere’s ride.” September 15, 1930. Boston Public Library.

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife’s 2025 gathering, Recalling the Revolution in New England, will be held on June 27–28 at Historic Deerfield.

Learn about the many ways the people of New England have looked back on the nation’s founding—and what they forgot, or chose to forget, in the process. We will explore how the peoples of the region have commemorated, memorialized, documented, invoked, fictionalized, and even forgotten the American Revolution through the Bicentennial period.

The conference keynote will be provided by Dr. Zara Anishanslin of the University of Delaware, author of the forthcoming book The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists who Championed the American Revolution.

Click here for the latest 2025 conference schedule.

Please register to join us at this conference in person or virtually. All registrants will be able to access session recordings online for a limited time.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we have a limited number of free student registrations available on a first-come, first-served basis. Would you like to help make future Dublin Seminars accessible to students in this way?  Donate here to directly support free student registration fees, empowering the next generation of leaders and innovators.

The annual Dublin Seminar is a meeting place where scholars of all kinds—academics, students, museum and library professionals, artisans and craftspeople, educators, preservationists, and committed avocational researchers—join in deep conversation around a focused theme in New England history, pooling their knowledge and exchanging ideas, sources, and methods in a thought-provoking forum.

This year, as the nation looks back on the start of the war for independence, please join our conversation about all the ways that the people of New England have preserved the memories of those historic events.

Special thanks to our partner and host, Historic Deerfield, and to all our sponsors:

• American Antiquarian Society
• Boston University American Studies Program
• Historic New England
• University of Massachusetts Department of History
• University of Massachusetts Public History Program