The Beehive: the official blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society

MHS in Primetime!

Series: MHS in the News
By Elaine Grublin
On 27 January 27 2009 there was a celebrity sighting at the MHS library.  Sarah Jessica Parker, of Sex & the City fame, visited our reading room and worked with material from our manuscript collections. We've kept it under wraps for more than a year waiting for [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 3:26 PM

Presidential Letters Guide Launched

Series: Collections News , From Our Collections
By Tracy Potter
Over the last several months Jeremy Dibbell, Anna Cook, and I have been tantalizing all of you with peeks into the library’s latest project, Presidential Letters at the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Overview.  I am glad to announce that as of the 23 February [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 7:24 AM

Former MHS Fellow Crystal Feimster Profiled

By Jeremy Dibbell
Recent MHS-NEH long-term research fellow Crystal Feimster is the subject of a profile at The Root: "Black History Today." Check it out to read the latest on Crystal's fascinating research, or see Anna Cook's Beehive write-up of a brown-bag lunch talk here at MHS. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 22 February, 2010, 9:55 AM

This Week @ MHS

By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Tuesday, 23 February for a lecture by Richard Katula, "Edward Everett, George Washington, and the Power of Ordinary Greatness." Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., with the talk beginning at 6 p.m. More info here, including registration information. Please [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 22 February, 2010, 8:11 AM

Presidents at the MHS

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
Back in November Anna Cook recapped a brown-bag event on the progress of the "Presidential Papers Project" at MHS, headed by my colleague Tracy Potter, with assistance last semester by intern Sarah Desmond. The end product of this survey will be a web-accessible subject [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 15 February, 2010, 7:33 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
The MHS, including the library, will be closed on Monday, 15 February for the Presidents' Day holiday. On Wednesday and Thursday, 17-18 February, MHS is partnering with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to present a two-day teacher workshop based on court cases and [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 15 February, 2010, 6:56 AM

MHS Announces New Membership Rates

By Jeremy Dibbell
In case you missed it in this month's e-newsletter: the Massachusetts Historical Society has announced a promotional new member rate for 2010: Members who join through the end of June can take advantage of a special first-year introductory membership rate of $75. As [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 12 February, 2010, 6:19 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Tuesday, 9 February for a conversation with Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops. Lockhart will speak on "Creating the Past through Music." The conversation will be facilitated by Steve Marini of Wellesley College. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 8 February, 2010, 8:33 AM

Reading "Silence Dogood"

Series: From Our Collections
By Nancy Heywood
Many people have heard of Silence Dogood, and recognize that name as a pseudonym used by Benjamin Franklin, but how many people have read "her" words? The MHS has just launched a web exhibition, "Silence Dogood: Benjamin Franklin in The New-England Courant"  featuring [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 5 February, 2010, 3:34 PM

"A Good Stiff Grog"

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
Our February Object of the Month is a 15 February 1939 letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to historian Roger Merriman, FDR's former teacher at Harvard and in 1939 the vice president of the MHS. In this letter, Roosevelt bemoans what he calls the "We who are about [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 3 February, 2010, 8:12 AM

New Forbes Family Collections

Series: Collections News
By Jeremy Dibbell
New Forbes family papers which arrived at the MHS in several installments, deposited by the J. M. Forbes Family Archives Committee in 2004, 2008 and 2009, have recently been processed and added to ABIGAIL. These include the J. M. Forbes & Co. estate papers, a collection [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 1 February, 2010, 1:46 PM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Wednesday, 3 February at 1 p.m. for a brown-bag lunch with research fellow James Downs, who'll speak on "Sick from Freedom: The Unexpected Consequences of the American Civil War." Please note: this event has cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 1 February, 2010, 1:36 PM