August is leaving us and September steps in. As fall approaches we will see increased activity on our events calendar, but we want to ease into so this week we keep things light.
On Wednesday, 2 September, we have a Brown Bag lunch talk taking place at noon. Pack a lunch
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| Published: Sunday, 30 August, 2015, 12:00 AM
We expect to see maps on paper, not on animal horns. Maj. Samuel Selden might have thought this as he etched a map of Boston on his powder horn, which is dated 9 March 1776. During the Revolutionary War, soldiers used animal horns to hold their gunpowder. They filled them
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| Published: Wednesday, 26 August, 2015, 8:00 AM
By Dan Hinchen
Please note that the library closes early at 3:45PM on Wednesday, 26 August.
On Tuesday, 25 August, we have a Brown Bag lunch talk taking place at noon. Join us to hear Sean Munger of the University of Oregon as he presents "Journaling the Skies: New England's Weather Diarists,
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| Published: Sunday, 23 August, 2015, 12:00 AM
By Susan Martin, Collection Services
Three weeks ago, I introduced you to John Egbert Jansen and Margaret A. Wisner of Pine Bush, N.Y. Their papers form part of the Hall-Baury-Jansen family papers and include overlapping diaries for the years 1858 and 1859. One of my colleagues here at the MHS asked me
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| Published: Friday, 21 August, 2015, 1:00 AM
It is a quiet week here at the Society as we leave the dog days of summer behind. On Wednesday, 19 August, we have a Brown Bag lunch talk presented by Jordan Taylor of Indiana University. Taylor's talk, "News in Flux: Early American Information and Commerce in the Age of
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| Published: Sunday, 16 August, 2015, 12:00 AM
This week at the Society there are two teacher workshops and a Brown Bag taking place. Maritime Massachusetts: Falmouth Stories and Sources, is a three-day program (Monday, 10 August-Wednesday 12 August) which is open to educators and history enthusiasts with a fee of $35.
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| Published: Sunday, 9 August, 2015, 12:00 AM
While our mission statement here at the Massachusetts Historical Society proclaims that we hold materials dedicated to the study of the history of Massachusetts and the United States, we also hold materials that may be of interest to scholars researching other countries.
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| Published: Saturday, 8 August, 2015, 8:00 AM
By Amanda M. Norton, Adams Papers
This August marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of the first part John Adams’s “A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law.” This rather arcane title can obscure the profound message that his essay brought to that colonial resistance to the Stamp
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| Published: Friday, 7 August, 2015, 1:00 AM
Summer is speeding along and we enter a new month. Here is what is on tap at the Society in the first week of August.
On Wednesday, 5 August, we have a Brown Bag lunch talk taking place at noon. "African Americans and the Cultural Work of Freemasonry: From Revolution Through
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| Published: Sunday, 2 August, 2015, 12:00 AM
Occasionally, when going through the stacks here at the MHS, something that you are not looking for catches your eye and makes you stop and take a look. Sometimes, you just take a quick look and then go back to what you were doing. Other times, though, the item piques your
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| Published: Saturday, 1 August, 2015, 10:55 AM
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