We hope you'll join us on Wednesday, 31 March for an author talk with Michael O'Brien about his new (and delightful) book Mrs. Adams in Winter. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., with the talk set to start at 6 p.m. Reservations are now required for this event, and
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| Published: Monday, 29 March, 2010, 8:28 AM
By Jeremy Dibbell
We've added a special display to our annual MHS Open House, which will be held this Saturday, 27 March, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Along with talks on the Margaret Fuller exhibit by Librarian Peter Drummey (11 a.m. and 1 p.m.), and the guided tours of the MHS building (10
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| Published: Wednesday, 24 March, 2010, 9:29 AM
As of today, Monday, 22 March our new exhibit is open: "'A More Interior Revolution': Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, and the Women of the American Renaissance" will be available for viewing Monday through Saturday from 1-4 p.m., and will be up through 30 June. Guest
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| Published: Monday, 22 March, 2010, 8:59 AM
We're thrilled and excited here at MHS today to report that our friend Woody Holton has been awarded one of the three 2010 Bancroft Prizes for his book Abigail Adams. One of the most prestigious prizes for books of history, the Bancroft is awarded by the trustees of Columbia
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| Published: Thursday, 18 March, 2010, 11:24 AM
C-SPAN has just announced that a whopping 160,000 hours of video from 1987 to the present is now available free through the C-SPAN Video Library website. These include many MHS-related events from 1999 through 2009, among them:
- Woody Holton's 9 November 2009 talk on his
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| Published: Tuesday, 16 March, 2010, 9:57 AM
By Jeremy Dibbell
John Quincy Adams' tweet for today, 15 March, has generated lots of questions from his followers. He writes "Rode out. attempted to write. Instead of lead-water use fresh butter. Inflammation increased. Evening Chess." He expands on this slightly in his long diary entry:
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| Published: Monday, 15 March, 2010, 2:47 PM
By Jeremy Dibbell
John Quincy Adams' busy social season, ministerial duties, and illnesses in St. Petersburg have continued to keep him away from the books, but he's mentioned a few of his recent reads. For previous reading lists, see the August, September, October, and November/December
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| Published: Wednesday, 10 March, 2010, 1:00 AM
We've got a full calendar of special events over the next month or so, which I thought I'd just highlight so you can mark your calendars. We hope to see you often!
On Monday, 22 March our new exhibit opens: "'A More Interior Revolution': Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller,
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| Published: Tuesday, 9 March, 2010, 8:35 AM
On Tuesday, 9 March, the Boston Environmental History Seminar series continues with a 5:15 p.m. talk by Kevin K. Olsen of Montclair State University, "An Environmental Management History of Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn and Queens Counties, 1849-1938." Steven T. Moga of MIT
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| Published: Monday, 8 March, 2010, 8:06 AM
If you missed the premiere of "Who Do You Think You Are?" on Friday night, which featured Sarah Jessica Parker researching at the MHS, you can watch the entire show online at Hulu.com here.
Oh, and by the way, we should note that in the scene where Ms. Parker is holding
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| Published: Monday, 8 March, 2010, 6:57 AM
A busy week this week at MHS, with two brown-bag lunches and an evening seminar:
On Wednesday, 3 March, beginning at 12 noon, research fellow Mazie Harris will give a brown-bag lunch talk on her current project, "Visual Vignettes: Nineteenth Century American Portrait Vignettes
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| Published: Monday, 1 March, 2010, 7:47 AM
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