The Beehive: the official blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Pamphlets, Pamphlets Everywhere!

Series: Collections News
By Jeremy Dibbell
Some excellent news from our Senior Cataloger, Mary Fabiszewski, who announces a major milestone in her current project, creating catalog records for our online catalog (ABIGAIL) of all the printed pamphlets in our collections. Mary writes: "The cataloging department (me) [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 29 January, 2010, 8:59 AM

The Thomas Shepards and Their Books [Part 3]

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
Just a brief update on some of the latest discoveries in our research on the Thomas Shepard books (see Part 1 and Part 2 for earlier posts): More than 100 extant copies of books (at ten different libraries) once belonging to the Shepards have now been identified, as Steve [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 28 January, 2010, 11:28 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
We hope you'll join us on Wednesday, 27 January at 6 p.m. for a talk by Christian J. Samito, author of Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War. More info here. Reservations are required for this [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 25 January, 2010, 8:26 AM

Hannah Mather Crocker’s “Reminiscences”: Lunch Talk Recap

Series: Around MHS
By Anna Cook
On Wednesday, 20 January, Eileen Hunt Botting from the University of Notre Dame spoke about her current project: a scholarly edition of Hannah Mather Crocker’s Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, written between 1826-1829 shortly before Crocker’s death. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Saturday, 23 January, 2010, 8:19 AM

The Thomas Shepards and Their Books [Part 2]

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
Picking up right where we left off yesterday, this post continues the saga of the Shepard library biblio-sleuthing expedition. As I wrote, I thought it might be worth checking to see whether we had any Shepard family books here at MHS, and if so whether they exhibited any [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 20 January, 2010, 3:02 PM

The Thomas Shepards and Their Books [Part 1]

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
Biblio-sleuthing is one of my very favorite things to do, so it was fun to be able to spend some time last Thursday working on a really interesting project in collaboration with Stephen Ferguson, Curator of Rare Books at Princeton University; Diann Benti, Assistant Reference [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 9:43 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Wednesday, 20 January at 12 noon for a brown-bag lunch talk with research fellow Eileen Botting. Eileen will discuss her current project, "Hannah Mather Crocker's Reminscences and Traditions of Boston." There's a bit more about the project here, via J.L. Bell's [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 8:34 AM

Holiday Closure Notice

By Jeremy Dibbell
The MHS, including the library, will be closed on Monday, 18 January in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 13 January, 2010, 1:52 PM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Wednesday, 13 January at 12 noon for a brown-bag lunch with research fellow Rachel Shelden. Rachel will speak on her current project, "Washington Brotherhood: Friendship and Politics in the Civil War Era." [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 11 January, 2010, 8:59 AM

New Collection Guide: Edward Atkinson Papers

Series: Collections News
By Peter Steinberg
A new guide to the Edward Atkinson papers, 1819-1920, is now available on the Massachusetts Historical Society website  (http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0016). Previously only minimally described, the newly processed collection and finding aid contribute [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 7 January, 2010, 10:24 AM

Coming Full Circle: Our 100th Object of the Month

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
To mark the 100th Object of the Month, we've decided to go back to our very deepest roots, highlighting one of the first published documents produced by the MHS (and probably my personal favorite of all the things under the roof). It's the "Circular Letter, of the Historical [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 5 January, 2010, 9:48 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Wednesday, 6 January at 12 noon for a brown-bag lunch with MHS Digital Projects Coordinator Nancy Heywood and Web Developer Bill Beck, "From Sealing Wax to a Website: The MHS Presents Jefferson's Manuscript of Notes on the State of Virginia." More info here. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 4 January, 2010, 8:00 AM