The Forum’s Resident Historian Vincent Dixon speaks on The History of Industrial Revolutions

On May 23rd, The Forum’s Resident Historian Vincent Dixon will speak on The History of Industrial Revolutions. Industrial Revolutions have developed in sequences over many centuries. While many of us tend to hear of “The” Industrial Revolution, there have been distinct waves of Industrial Revolutions, and as we begin to enter the AI Revolution, it is useful to review, the different Industrial Revolutions, and even to look further back. Each Revolution has distinct characteristics as technology and society interact, and transform each other, in a dynamic and hybrid set of interactions. While we cannot know every detail, with any ease, we can learn from thinking about these transformative periods and/or eras.

Vincent Lawrence “Vince” Dixon is a known Historian, in Eastern Massachusetts, especially focused on presentations including Colonial History; Civics; Current Events, and their Relationship to History; Constitutional History; Church-State Relationships, Evolutions, and Relationships with Civic Society; Parks, and Landscape History; and has also taught and tutored. He has done work in curriculum development, is a frequently published columnist, and speaker; and responds to custom requests. MASS PRESENTATIONS (a dba brand, of Dixon’s) develops a wide variety of presentations, including media, curriculum, and published materials, across a wide range of audiences, and subject matter. Dixon has made many presentations, including to Winchester Historical Society: Religious Realities of Winchester: Houses of Worship and Communities of Faith; Schools of Winchester and Their Namesakes (including an exploration of The Lincolns of Massachusetts); Sports History of Winchester (A Virtual Event – by Zoom); History of Vaccination, Immunization, and Disease Prevention; A First Family of Figure Skating: The Vinson Owen Family. – He has also presented to the Sudbury Militia Group, covering several historical eras, including the American War of Independence. He has regularly conducted Town Day Trolley Guided Tours; and will again, on this year’s Winchester Town Day, Saturday, June 7, 2025 – The ABCs Of Winchester History – During This 175th Anniversary Year of Winchester. Additional previous presentations have been made to Cambridge Historical Society; and he is periodically invited to teach classes in History, and Civics, at East Boston High School. Interestingly, Vince was home schooled K-12; earned his Associate in Arts, and his Bachelor of Arts Degree, cum laude, at the Harvard University Extension School and a Master of Education Degree at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He studied with Dr. Thomas H. O’Connor, University Historian of Boston College, who was the long-time Dean of Boston Historians.