Returning from a long weekend, this week's schedule is heavy at the tail-end. Here is what's coming up in the week ahead:
The MHS is CLOSED on Monday, 29 May, in observance of Memorial Day. Normal hours resume on Tuesday, 30 May.
- Thursday, 1 June, 6:00PM : The
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| Published: Sunday, 28 May, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Anna Clutterbuck-Cook, Reader Services
The Massachusetts Historical Society will be closed on Saturday and Monday this weekend in observance of Memorial Day. The origins of Memorial Day are rooted in the Civil War, and the rituals of commemoration that sprung up extemporaneously and then in a more collective,
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| Published: Friday, 26 May, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Kathleen Barker, Center for the Teaching of History
What is evidence? What can historians do with the evidence they collect and interpret? On May 13, 2017, a dedicated group of middle-school students tackled these very questions as they immersed themselves in the lives of men, women, and children whose papers reside in MHS
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| Published: Wednesday, 24 May, 2017, 9:36 AM
It is a very quiet week ahead as we approach a long holiday weekend, with only one event on the calendar. It is:
- Tuesday, 23 May, 6:00PM : The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism is the title of a new book, and
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| Published: Sunday, 21 May, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Shelby Wolfe, Reader Services
I recently received a scrapbook from a friend moving away from Boston who needed to weed out her hefty book collection. She texted me a series of pictures of the books she was giving away, which included a Victorian volume with one word, “Scrapbook,” emblazoned
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| Published: Friday, 19 May, 2017, 12:00 AM
- Tuesday, 16 May, 5:15PM : This week's Environemental History seminar is headed by Jason L. Newton of Syracuse University and is rescheduled from 14 March. "The Winter Workscape: Weather and the Meaning of Industrial Capitalism in the Northern Forest, 1850-1950," draws
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| Published: Sunday, 14 May, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Susan Martin, Collection Services
A recent acquisition by the MHS details the harrowing trans-Atlantic voyage of the packet ship Thomas P. Cope in 1846 and, like so many other manuscripts in our collections, touches on several other fascinating subjects at the same time. The seven-page account
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| Published: Wednesday, 10 May, 2017, 12:00 AM
It is a pretty quiet week here at the Society. This is what is on tap:
- Tuesday, 9 May : The Environmental History Seminar is CANCELED.
- Wednesday, 10 May, 12:00PM : Join us for a Brown Bag lunch talk with Emily Gephart of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
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| Published: Sunday, 7 May, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Anna Clutterbuck-Cook, Reader Services
Today we return to the 1917 diary of Gertrude Codman Carter. You may read the previous entries here:
Introduction | January | February | March | April
The entries for May 1917 are more extensive than the first few months of the year, beginning with May 3 and ending on
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| Published: Friday, 5 May, 2017, 3:29 PM
By Katherine Green, Reader Services
In March, Brendan Kieran from Reader Services wrote a blog post about industrial labor unions in Boston. This month, while browsing through ABIGAIL, I happened upon echoes of a very different kind of union history: that of the Western Federation of Miners and the Colorado
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| Published: Wednesday, 3 May, 2017, 2:17 PM
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