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The Boston Athenæum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of a small number of extant membership libraries, meaning that patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use the Athenæum's services. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Boston Athenaeum has hosted 17 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1998 Interview. The year with the most events was 2021 with four events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2011 with an average of 1,399 views per video. Most appearances with Victoria O'Malley (4), Peter S. Canellos (2). Most common tags: Family of President, Civil War, Arts & Literature.

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    The Great Dissenter

    Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan opposed limits on civil liberties and dissented in the 1896 “separate but equal” P

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    How Rights Went Wrong

    Columbia University Law Professor Jamal Greene looked at America’s approach to individual rights and offered his thoughts on …

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    A Worse Place Than Hell

    Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson looked at how the Civil War’s 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg impacted the live…

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    Land

    Author Simon Winchester examined the use of land and the concept of property ownership throughout human history. This was a v…

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