
Jon Roberts on Mary Baker Eddy and science and religion
Boston University Professor of American Intellectual History, Jon Roberts, speaks about Mary Baker Eddy and science in the 19th century.
Boston University Professor of American Intellectual History, Jon Roberts, speaks about Mary Baker Eddy and science in the 19th century.
How religion, culture, and politics shaped Boston in the late 19th century, where new movements crisscrossed with old. Features Dr. James O’Toole, Clough Millenium Professor of History, Boston College; Dr. Margaret Bendroth, Executive Director, Congregational Library and Archives; Dr. Christopher Evans, Professor of the History of Christianity and Methodist Studies, Boston University School of Theology; and Judy Huenneke, Senior Research Archivist, The Mary Baker Eddy Library.
Dr. Sherry Darling, Lead Researcher and Editor of The Mary Baker Eddy Papers, describes documentary editing of the Mary Baker Eddy Library collection.
Digitiization project managers from three major cultural institutions—The New York Public LIbrary, The Massachusetts Historical Society, and The Mary Baker Eddy Library—discuss how they’re making their collections and archives discoverable and understandable for a worldwide web audience.
Led by keynote speaker, Jon Roberts, Tomorrow Foundation Professor of American Intellectual History at Boston University, panelists examined the scientific, theological, medical, and philosophical revolutions of the 19th century.