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This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Elaine Grublin
With at least one event happening each day from 1 March to 5 March, everyone should be able to make it in to the MHS for an event this week: Tuesday, 1 March at 12:00 PM the next installment of the lunchtime mini-course series offers "What does Massachusetts have to [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 28 February, 2011, 7:41 AM

Discovering the New England Watch and Ward Society

Series: Research Published
By Anna J. Cook
One aspect of working at a research library that I enjoy immensely is seeing the fruits of our researchers’ labor in the form of published works. I recently had the pleasure of reading historian Neil Miller’s recently published history Banned in Boston: The Watch and [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 25 February, 2011, 8:00 AM

Spotlight on Collections: The Lodge Papers, Part 3

Series: Collection Profiles
By Tracy Potter
Last time in Spotlight on Collections, I wrote about the history of the Cabot and Lodge families and touched briefly on Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924). Today I will further discuss Henry Cabot Lodge and his political and historical importance to both United States and world [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 23 February, 2011, 8:00 AM

Happy Presidents' Day

Series: From Our Collections
By Elaine Grublin
Most people who are familiar with the MHS know that two of our most well-known collections are the Adams Family Papers and the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts.  Between these two collections, the MHS holds a large corpus of papers belonging [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 21 February, 2011, 10:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

Series: Today @MHS
By Elaine Grublin
Another busy week for programs at the MHS:     Wednesday, 23 February at 12:00 PM, Paine Publication Fund fellow Edward W. Hanson presents his brown-bag lunch, "Crime in the Early Republic: Robert Treat Paine as Massachusetts Attorney General."  Bring a [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 21 February, 2011, 8:00 AM

Dangers and Denials: Cautionary Tales for Our Times

Series: Recent Events
By Kathleen Barker
On Thursday, February 10, Boston University Professor Andrew Bacevich joined us for the first event in our new conversation series, "Dangers and Denials: Cautionary Tales for Our Times." Over the next few months, the MHS will host several programs that will examine what [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Thursday, 17 February, 2011, 8:00 AM

February's Fellows

Series: From the Reading Room
By Elaine Grublin
Keeping the reader services staff on their toes, three short-term fellows and one New England Regional Fellowship Consortium recipient are in residence at the MHS this February. Here is a look at what they are working on: Marc Friedlaender Fellowship recipient Marc-William [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 16 February, 2011, 8:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

By Elaine Grublin
Mark your calendars and plan to attend one or more of our events this week: Monday, 14 February, at noon Marc Friedlaender Fellowship recipient Marc-William Palen, University of Texas at Austin, presents his brown bag "The Cleveland 'Conspiracy': Mugwumpery, Free Trade [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 14 February, 2011, 8:00 AM

Reader Services Welcomes New Staff Members

Series: Around MHS
By Anna Cook
This week the Library Reader Services staff welcomes two new Library Assistants onto their team: Andrea Cronin and Betsy Boyle. Both Andrea and Betsy come to us from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and are beginning their careers [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 11 February, 2011, 10:57 AM

Spotlight on Collections: The Lodge Papers, Part 2

Series: Collection Profiles
By Tracy Potter
Continuing our series on the Henry Cabot Lodge & and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. collections, let us look at how the Cabot and Lodge families connect to Massachusetts and each other. The elder Henry Cabot Lodge was the son of John Ellerton Lodge and Anna Sophia Cabot, a [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Wednesday, 9 February, 2011, 8:00 AM

This Week @ MHS

By Elaine Grublin
Please plan to join us at one of this week's events: On Tuesday, 8 February, at 5:15 PM Megan Kate Nelson, Harvard University, will present the next installment of the Boston Environmental History Seminar.  Megan will present  her paper "'They fluttered [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Monday, 7 February, 2011, 11:05 AM

Spotlight on Collections: The Lodge Papers

Series: Collection Profiles
By Tracy Potter
We librarians often notice when a trend takes shape in materials researchers request in the library. Two summers ago a large number of researchers requested material from the Edward Atkinson Papers. Last summer the Old North Church Records where in unusually high demand. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Friday, 4 February, 2011, 10:00 AM

Rescheduled Events

By Elaine Grublin
Both of the programs scheduled for tomorrow, 2 February 2011, have been rescheduled. The brown bag program, The Cleveland "Conspiracy": Mugwumpery, Free Trade Ideology, and Foreign Policy in Gilded Age America, will be presented on Monday, 14 February 2011 @ 12:00 PM. [...] read more

comments: 0 | permalink | Published: Tuesday, 1 February, 2011, 10:00 AM