By MHS Staff
From all of us at the Massachusetts Historical Society, best wishes for happy holidays and a wonderful 2011. We look forward to seeing you soon.
The MHS will be closing at 4:45 p.m. today, 23 December, and will re-open at 9 a.m. on Monday, 3 January 2011.
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| Published: Thursday, 23 December, 2010, 10:17 AM
By Jeremy Dibbell
Just a quick note of farewell from your loyal editor; tomorrow will be my last day at the Historical Society, so I'm handing over responsibilities for The Beehive to new co-editors Elaine Grublin and Carol Knauff, who I'm sure will keep you all entertained, up-to-speed,
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| Published: Wednesday, 22 December, 2010, 3:00 PM
In the Summer 2010 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic I was pleased to find a new, edited version of one of the most fascinating pamphlets published in the early nineteenth century: it's called Memoir of the Northern Kingdom, Written, A.D. 1872, By the late Rev.
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| Published: Wednesday, 22 December, 2010, 9:45 AM
One of my favorite things about the early volumes of MHS Proceedings are the donation lists from the first few years, when the Society accumulated not only gifts to enhance its library of manuscripts and printed books but also a hefty collection of natural history specimens
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| Published: Monday, 20 December, 2010, 8:00 AM
To mark the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, some related highlights from the MHS collections:
The Boston Tea Party page from our Coming of the American Revolution site. Read broadsides, diary accounts, and reactions to the dumping of the tea.
Manuscript minutes of
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| Published: Thursday, 16 December, 2010, 10:06 AM
- We hope you'll join us for the second of our of mini-courses, "What does Massachusetts have to do with ...?", on Tuesday, 14 December at 12 noon. Jayne Gordon and Kathleen Barker of the Education Department will discuss "What does Massachusetts have to do with ... the
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| Published: Monday, 13 December, 2010, 7:13 AM
You can now watch Pauline Maier's 23 October MHS author talk about her new book Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 online, thanks to the Forum Network. The video is located here.
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| Published: Thursday, 9 December, 2010, 7:46 AM
During my senior year at college, I finally reached a point where I had to decide what I was going to do with my B.A. in history. Then, my mom offered a suggestion I'd never thought of before: what about being a librarian? As I began to explore this career possibility,
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| Published: Monday, 6 December, 2010, 7:10 AM
We'll hope you'll join us this week for our last evening program of 2010: on Tuesday, 7 December we'll host a conversation with Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of PBS Masterpiece for WGBH in Boston, as part of our "Creating the Past" conversation series. Refreshments will
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| Published: Monday, 6 December, 2010, 7:08 AM
As promised, we've launched a new digital collection, The Siege of Boston. Featuring more than a dozen eyewitness accounts and reports from Boston during the siege (April 1775 - March 1776), this collection brings together a wide range of materials from the Society's holdings,
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| Published: Wednesday, 1 December, 2010, 10:59 AM
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