In a recent episode of The Object of History, titled "Events That Did Not Happen", we examined several items from the MHS collections that marked events that did not actually take place. In this bonus episode, we sit down with MHS Library Assistant Hannah Goeselt to learn more about Boston's statue of Leif Erikson and Eben Horsford's efforts to commemorate Norse discoverers of America.

Learn more about episode objects here: https://www.masshist.org/podcast/season-3-bonus-episode-eben-horsfords-nordic-nostalgia

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Listen to "Events That Did Not Happen".

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of Hannah's blog post on "Horsford's Vikings of New England".

Episode Special Guest:

Hannah Goeselt joined the MHS as a Library Assistant in October of 2023 after graduating from Simmons’ Master of Library and Information Science program. She mostly writes and thinks about manuscripts as material objects and their individual journeys through history.

This episode uses materials from:

Ginger by Chad Crouch (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)
Psychic by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)
Curious Nature by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)