By Gwen Fries, Adams Papers
For as long as teenagers have had bedrooms, they’ve been pinning their role models up on the wall—a favorite singer, a beloved actor, the best ball player. When John Quincy Adams was fifteen, his bedroom at The Hague held a gilded framed picture of General George
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| Published: Wednesday, 30 August, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Neal Millikan, Adams Papers Editorial Project
On February 22, 1821, John Quincy Adams noted in his diary that “two of the most memorable transactions of my life” occurred that day: the ratification of the Transcontinental Treaty between the United States and Spain, and the submission of his report on weights
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| Published: Monday, 28 August, 2017, 12:00 AM
The only item on the calendar this week is a free tour on Saturday, 2 September, at 10:00AM
The library is closed on Saturday, 2 September, though the exhibition galleries remain open, 10:00AM-4:00PM.
The building is closed on Monday, 4 September, in observance of Labor
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| Published: Sunday, 27 August, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Susan Martin, Collections Services
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at Charlestown State Prison. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists convicted for killing two men in South Braintree, Mass. on 15 April 1920. Their notorious trial,
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| Published: Wednesday, 23 August, 2017, 2:36 PM
On Monday, 21 August 2017, a solar eclipse will occur! Many people in Boston are looking forward to 2:46 pm when they will (weather permitting!) experience what it is like when the sun is about 60% eclipsed.
Staff of the MHS have located a few items that convey
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| Published: Sunday, 20 August, 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 | May
June | July
Gertrude spends the month of August preparing to move her family -- son John, husband
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| Published: Friday, 18 August, 2017, 3:55 PM
By Adam Berk, Roxbury Latin School
In the summer of 2017, the Center for the Teaching of History at the MHS offered several professional development workshops for educators, including a program on World War I, and a three-day event that explored food in American history. While researching primary sources
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| Published: Thursday, 17 August, 2017, 2:18 PM
By Amanda M. Norton, Adams Papers
On August 15, 1824, the General Marquis de Lafayette, one of the great heroes of the American Revolution, returned to the United States for the first time in forty years, kicking off a nearly thirteen-month tour of the entire country. After Lafayette’s arrival in Massachusetts,
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| Published: Monday, 14 August, 2017, 8:00 AM
The only things on the calendar for the week ahead are a full teacher workshop and a free tour:
- Wednesday, 9 August, 9:00AM : Participants in "Food in American History" - a three-day workshop, August 9-11 - will taste their way throguh 400 years of American history
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| Published: Sunday, 6 August, 2017, 12:00 AM
By Katherine Dannehl, Reader Services
Gallipolis, Ohio is a village of 3,462 people nestled on the banks of the Ohio River. It has a few claims to fame, including being the birthplace of artist Jenny Holzer and hometown of Bob Evans of “Bob Evans” restaurants. Unrelated to conceptual art or country-themed
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| Published: Friday, 4 August, 2017, 2:26 PM
By Susan Martin, Collections Services
The recently acquired MHS collection of Shaw-Minturn family papers has received its fair share of well-deserved press, particularly related to the discovery of the famous sword carried by Robert Gould Shaw at the assault on Fort Wagner. I hope to write more about the Shaw
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| Published: Wednesday, 2 August, 2017, 2:59 PM
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