The Beehive: the official blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Holiday Hours

By Jeremy Dibbell
The MHS library will be open for regular hours on Saturday, 3 July (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.) but will be closed on Monday, 5 July in observance of Independence Day. For a few Fourth of July highlights from the MHS collections, see this post, or check out our Independence Day site. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 29 June, 2010, 8:37 AM

Fort Marion Artwork

Series: Collections News , From Our Collections
By Nancy Heywood
We're happy to announce a new online guide to the Massachusetts Historical Society's only volume of Indian ledger art: Book of Sketches Made at Fort Marion. This book of hand-colored sketches made by Making Medicine and other Cheyenne Indian prisoners at Fort Marion [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 24 June, 2010, 4:49 PM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Elaine Grublin
Here's what's on the calendar for this week: On Wednesday, 23 June, there will be a brown-bag lunch with Derek Attig from the University of Illinois. Derek will be sharing his work on "Race and Region in Twentieth-Century Bookmobility." The event will begin at 12 noon. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 21 June, 2010, 1:00 AM

Poetry with a Purpose: A Workshop for History and English Language Arts Teachers

Series: Education Programs
By Kathleen Barker
What can poems tell us about Bostonians and their ideas about liberty, responsibility, and rebellion, prior to the American Revolution? How was the American Revolution invoked in poems to critique the Civil War? Join us on August 10 and 11, 2010, as we explore these (and [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 18 June, 2010, 1:00 AM

Revisiting Bunker Hill

Series: Recent Events
By Elaine Grublin
Fifty years ago Thomas Fleming published Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill. As the anniversary of that pivotal Revolutionary War event approaches, and more importantly in celebration of the fifty years since the book was first published, Fleming has issued an [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 17 June, 2010, 8:00 AM

Local Teachers Meet Edith Holliday, WWI Volunteer

Series: Education Programs , Recent Events
By Elaine Grublin
On Monday, June 7, nine teachers from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School in Bridgewater, MA visited the MHS to attended a fullday workshop entitled "American Women in Europe: Red Cross Canteen Service in WWI." The workshop, which aimed to give teachers primary source [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 1:00 AM

Ulrich on Preservation

Series: MHS in the News
By Jeremy Dibbell
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, professor of history at Harvard and the most recent recipient of the MHS' John F. Kennedy Medal, mentioned the Historical Society in a recent lecture about the importance of preserving historical artifacts, delivered at the Church History Museum in [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010, 12:00 PM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Here's what's on the calendar for this week: Today, Monday, 14 June, there will be a brown-bag lunch with Lori Veilleux of Brown University. This event will begin at 12 noon. Lori will speak on "Providence and Prevention: Boston in the 1832 Cholera Epidemic." On Tuesday, [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 14 June, 2010, 8:00 AM

"Extraordinary Living Wonders!"

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
Our June Object of the Month is an 1862 advertising broadside for a return visit to Boston by the "Aztec Children," Maximo and Bartola. The pair had made an initial appearance in Boston in 1850, and toured the world for at least four decades, sometimes under the management [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 11 June, 2010, 10:00 AM

Tea Party Traditions

By Jeremy Dibbell
MHS research fellow and frequent researcher Ben Carp (Associate Professor of History at Tufts University) recently made a guest appearance on the podcast "Backstory with the American History Guys," to talk about historical "tea parties" in the context of the current political [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 9 June, 2010, 8:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
We hope you'll join us at 1154 Boylston for this week's public programs: On Tuesday, 8 June, Leo Damrosch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, will speak on his new book Tocqueville's Discovery of America, recently published by Farrar, Straus [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 7 June, 2010, 8:00 AM

Off to Virginia!

Series: Blog Info
By Jeremy Dibbell
Your regular blog-correspondent will be away from 1154 Boylston Street for the next two weeks, taking part in a fellowship at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. The first week I'll be taking the course "Printed Books to 1800: Description [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 4 June, 2010, 11:10 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Just one event on the calendar this week, but we hope you'll join us at 12 noon on Wednesday, 2 June for a brown-bag lunch with Erik Chaput of Syracuse University. Erik will speak on "Thomas Wilson Dorr and the Rhode Island Question." The effects of the 1842 Dorr Rebellion [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 1 June, 2010, 8:00 AM