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This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
On Wednesday, 28 July, please join us at 12 noon for a brown-bag lunch with research fellow Nicholas Osborne of Columbia University, "Saving Capitalism: The Rise of US Savings Banks, 1816-1865." More info here. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 26 July, 2010, 7:42 AM

It's Pronounced HOW?

Series: MHS in the News
By Jeremy Dibbell
MHS Librarian Peter Drummey put his Boston pronunciation skills on the line in a recent column by Billy Palumbo over the "right" way to say "Tremont" (as in the name of the street). It's an amusing look at some of Boston's linguistic shibboleths, what they mean, and what [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 20 July, 2010, 9:36 AM

On Bastille Day

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
In honor of Bastille Day, a snippet of an interesting letter from our collections which speaks to the topic. Writing to John Adams on 11 January 1816, Thomas Jefferson looked back on the eighteenth century, agreeing with Adams that the period "witnessed the sciences and [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 14 July, 2010, 1:00 PM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Jeremy Dibbell
Join us on Wednesday, 14 July for a brown-bag lunch talk with current research fellow Neil Dugre of Northwestern University. Neil will speak on his current research project, "Creative Union: Civic Innovation in Seventeenth-Century New England." The event will begin at 12 [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 12 July, 2010, 1:08 PM

Winning the Vote

Series: From Our Collections
By Jeremy Dibbell
A very interesting Object of the Month essay this month by my colleague and occasional Beehive contributor Anna Cook - the object from our collections is a broadsheet handout for marchers in a 16 October 1915 Boston parade for woman suffrage in Massachusetts. It includes [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 7 July, 2010, 10:17 AM

This Week @ MHS

By Jeremy Dibbell
On Wednesday, 7 July, beginning at 12 noon, we'll have a brown-bag lunch with research fellow Robert Mussey. The talk is titled "'And shall we not be all together?': Richard Cranch and His Family." More info here. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 6 July, 2010, 7:48 AM