AUBURN — Beverly Robbins, chairwoman of the program committee of the Androscoggin Historical Society, announces the society will present eight programs in the 2016-17 season. Topics will include a Maine woman advocating women’s suffrage, the first African-Americans in Lewiston, and tools and household devices from long ago.

Most of the programs will be presented at the society’s headquarters in the Androscoggin County Courthouse at Turner and Court streets in Auburn. There will be a genealogy workshop at the Auburn Library. There is no admission charge; donations are accepted.

The programs are:

Sept. 27: Chris Beam will discuss how the parallel lives of Edmund S. Muskie and Richard M. Nixon illuminate important developments in the political history of the United States in the three decades following World War II. 7 p.m. at AHS headquarters.

Oct. 25: Anne B. Gass analyzes the role of a Maine woman, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, in the suffrage movement. 7 p.m. AHS.

Nov. 17: Lew Alessio will host a night of guessing (or knowing?) the widgets, thingamajigs, and whatchamacallits in everyday life generations ago. 7 p.m. AHS.

Feb. 11: Lin Wright will tell how to find, understand, and use church records for genealogical research. Cheryl Swift talks about “Who’s Your Daddy,” a DAR how-to on genealogy. 2 p.m., Auburn Public Library.

Feb. 28: Candace Kane will discuss the lives of a dozen former African American slaves and how they came to live in Lewiston in 1866. 7 p.m. AHS.

March 28: Doug Hodgkin will examine Edward Little’s influence in the history of Lewiston-Auburn, as well as his previous career in Newburyport, Mass., and in Portland, Maine. 7 p.m. AHS

April 25: Deborah Gould will read selections from her social history novel, “The Eastern: The Early Years.” In the early 1800s, five families settle along the Eastern River in Pittston, Maine. 7 p.m. AHS

May 26: Joe Hall will discuss how Wabanaki place names can help people understand how they inhabited western Maine in the centuries before and after colonists’ arrival. This is the annual AHS dinner meeting. 5:30 p.m., Marco’s Restaurant.