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Recent MHS Grant Announcements

Series: Around MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Among the stories in the September/October MHS e-newsletter is a short piece highlighting some recent and very exciting grants we've received. They include: - $15,000 from the Library of Congress for its "The End of Slavery: Documents and Dilemmas" program. MHS staff will [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 30 September, 2009, 9:18 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
The MHS seminar series kicks off on Thursday, 1 October. Join us at 5:15 p.m. for a talk by MIT's Pauline Maier, "What Did It Take To Get the Constitution Ratified? A New Look at the Massachusetts Convention, January 9-February 6, 1788." Richard Brown of the University of [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 28 September, 2009, 8:37 AM

MHS Mourns Member Merrill Peterson

By Jeremy Dibbell
Noted historian and Thomas Jefferson scholar Merrill Peterson died on Wednesday, 23 September in Charlottesville, VA. Peterson was 88. The author or editor of some 37 books (including Jefferson in the American Mind, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, Lincoln in American [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 25 September, 2009, 9:30 AM

MHS Proceedings as Genealogical Resource

By Jeremy Dibbell
As with many things on the Internet, it's difficult to tell if this is new or recycled, but an interesting post came through my Google Reader this afternoon. Ancestry magazine features a "More Hidden Treasures" column, and this one notes the potential value of published [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 24 September, 2009, 5:02 PM

Keeping Up With the Adamses

By Jeremy Dibbell
Just in case you haven't been checking in regularly with John Quincy Adams' Twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/JQAdams_MHS) I thought I'd provide a brief update on their progress after about a month and a half at sea (they departed from Charlestown, MA, you'll remember, [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 18 September, 2009, 1:49 PM

Seminars @ MHS

By Jeremy Dibbell
The Massachusetts Historical Society sponsors four seminar series, each addressing a diverse range of topics including: Early American History, Environmental History, Immigration & Urban History, and the History of Women & Gender.  Seminars are open to everyone.
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comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 16 September, 2009, 11:05 AM

"Riotous Flesh" Lunch Talk Recap

By Anna Cook
Last Wednesday (9 September), long-term NEH-MHS fellow, April Haynes, gave a brown bag lunch presentation here at the MHS titled "Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice, 1830-1860." April described for us the way in which nineteenth-century female reformers [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 14 September, 2009, 9:25 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
It's a busy week at 1154 Boylston as we officially kick off our fall events lineup. Here's what's happening: Today, Monday 14 September, join us at 12 noon for a brown-bag lunch with research fellow Deborah McNally of the University of Washington. She'll discuss her project, [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 14 September, 2009, 9:22 AM

Teacher Workshop Opportunity: Slavery & Abolition

By Kathleen Barker
The Massachusetts Historical Society is partnering with the Paul Revere House, Old South Meeting House, and the Boston African American National Historical Site to deliver an engaging and informative teacher workshop this fall. "Struggle towards Freedom: Slavery and [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 10 September, 2009, 5:14 PM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Please join us on Wednesday, 9 September at noon for a brown-bag lunch with the MHS' current NEH long-term research fellow, April Haynes. April's discussion is titled "Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice, 1830-1860." [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 8 September, 2009, 9:41 AM

MHS Unveils New Homepage

Series: Around MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
This just in from our web developer, Bill Beck: "After months of planning, consulting, designing, and general tweaking, we are very excited to present a new look for the MHS homepage! Our main goal is to help visitors get at the content they need with fewer [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 8 September, 2009, 8:51 AM

Holiday Closure Notice

Series: From the Reading Room
By Jeremy Dibbell
Please note: The reading room will be closed on Saturday, 5 September and Monday, 7 September for the Labor Day holiday. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 4 September, 2009, 3:00 PM

A Captain in John Brown's Army

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
Our September Object of the Month is a commission signed by John Brown, making Aaron Dwight Stevens a captain in the "army Brown hoped to raise under a provisional antislavery constitution for the United States." The document was signed the night before Brown's raid on Harpers [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 3 September, 2009, 4:38 PM

JQA's Shipboard Reading List: September Edition

By Jeremy Dibbell
As September dawns, we find John Quincy Adams and our other intrepid travellers mid-voyage; two hundred years ago at the start of this month they were about halfway between the southeast coast of Iceland and the northwest coast of Scotland (map). Mr. Adams' reading continues [...] read more

comments: 4 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 1 September, 2009, 10:49 AM