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This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Elaine Grublin
Mark you calendars and prepare to join us at one or more of this week's events. We have two events happening on Wednesday, February 2. At noon, in the Dowse library, Marc-William Palen of University of Texas at Austin will present a brown bag lunch talk: The Cleveland "Conspiracy": [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 31 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

Local Researcher Uses MHS to Populate Wikipedia Pages

Series: From the Reading Room
By Anna J. Cook
A local independent researcher recently made her way to the MHS to conduct research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Boston-area libraries. She reports that while a substantial amount of research for her project can be completed online, thanks to mass scanning projects [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 27 January, 2011, 10:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

By Carol Knauff
The Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar continues on Thursday, 27 January, at 5:15 PM with a talk by Llana Barber of Boston College, "If we would...leave the city, this would be a ghost town": Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000.  [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 24 January, 2011, 12:01 PM

The Unpredictable New England Weather

Series: From the Reading Room
By Elaine Grublin
In the library this morning, while looking for information in a manuscript collection, I found something else entirely: hope. Sitting safely ensconced in the warm and flake free library, I watched as just outside the window Boston received yet another solid coating of snow [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

Summer Fellowship Opportunities for K-12 Educators

Series: Education Programs
By Kathleen Barker
Are you (or do you know) a K-12 educator in search of a fun and rewarding summer opportunity? The MHS is offering at least three fellowships to public and/or parochial schoolteachers and library media specialists during the summer of 2011. The fellowships carry a stipend [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 19 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Elaine Grublin
Mark your calendars and plan to attend one of our events offered this week:  Tuesday, 18 January, at 12:00 PM the lunch hour mini-course series What does Massachusetts have to do with ... continues with What does Massachusetts have to do with ... the [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 17 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

Our Youngest Researcher

Series: From the Reading Room
By Anna J. Cook
While the majority of researchers who use our library are adults - college students and above - the MHS often fields research questions from and serves patrons who are in their teens and even younger. Last week, we were visited by a family from California who were visiting [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 14 January, 2011, 10:00 AM

Alexander Kluger Presents @ Brown Bag Lunch

Series: Around MHS
By Anna J. Cook
Last Wednesday (January 5th) visiting scholar Alexander Kluger from the Universitat Wurzburg (Germany) spoke at a brown bag lunch event on the subject of his research while in residence here at the Massachusetts Historical Society. In this post, I offer a brief summary [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 13 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

Welcome Short-Term Fellow Mary Kelley

Series: Around MHS
By Anna J. Cook, Assistant Reference Librarian
This week the MHS welcomes Dr. Mary Kelley, Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). Dr. Kelley is a long-time friend of the MHS, having been elected as a Massachusetts Historical Society Fellow in 1994 [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 11 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

Kudos to the Reader Services Staff

Series: From the Reading Room
By Elaine Grublin
    Last week the American Historical Society (AHA)  held their annual meeting in Boston.  The meeting spanned January 6 through January 9 and brought an influx of historians, graduate students, and other history professionals to the Back Bay area.  Many [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 10 January, 2011, 10:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Elaine Grublin
Please join us at this week's event: Tuesday, 11 January at 5:15 PM the Boston Environmental History Seminar series continues with "City as Change: Design and Science Collaborations for Sustainable Urban Life," a talk presented by Ninian Stein of Wheaton College, Philip [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 10 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

Massachusetts Finds Her Voice

Series: Around MHS
By Elaine Grublin
The year 2011 marks the beginning of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. Over the course of the next five years the MHS will mark this milestone with a number of public events, exhibitions, publication projects, and web displays. The first of these efforts, Looking [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 7 January, 2011, 1:00 AM

The Fifty Nifty

Series: From the Reading Room
By Elaine Grublin
In January 2010 I posted a piece offering a glimpse of the researcher population that visited the MHS in 2009. This morning I sat down to compose a similar piece for 2010. But then I got distracted. As I worked through our researcher database, tallying up the different [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 5 January, 2011, 8:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Elaine Grublin and Carol Knauff
Happy New Year! We hope you'll join us on Wednesday, 5 January at 12 noon for a brown bag lunch. Alexander Kluger of Universitat Wurzburg will discuss his ideas and research concerning the topic What Is "Influence"? German Literature and American Transcendentalism. For more [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 3 January, 2011, 8:18 AM