This Week @ MHS

It looks like it will be another busy week of programs at the MHS. There is something for everyone this week.

Tuesday, 7 February at 5:15 PM, John L. Bell, author of the Boston1775 blog, will present his paper "Marital Infidelity and Espionage in the Siege of Boston" as part of the Boston Early American History Seminar Series. Professor Bob Allison, Suffolk University, will give the comment. 

Thursday, 9 February a new exhibition, A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885, opens. The exhibition is free and open to the public 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Saturday, through 2 June.  

Also on Thursday, the History of Women and Gender Seminar continues with a presentation at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.  Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University at Newark, will present her paper "Performing Civil Rights: Black Women Entertainers, the 'Long' Civil Rights Movement, and Second Wave Feminism." Daphne Brooks, Princeton University, will give the comment.

And on Saturday, 11 February the Saturday tour "The History and Collections of the MHS" returns. This free 90-minute tour departs the MHS lobby promptly at 10:00 AM.

This Week @ MHS

Our winter/spring event season is in full swing. Mark you calendar and plan to attend at least one event this week.

Tuesday, 31 January, at 5:15 PM, the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar Series makes it 2012 debut with "Orphan Evacuation or Big Business?: The Institutionalization of Korean Adoption," presented by Arissa Oh of Boston College. Susan Zeiger, Primary Source, will provide the comment. Seminars are free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. 

Wednesday, 1 February, at 12:00 PM, W.B.H. Dowse Fellow Robyn McMillin, University of Oklahoma, will present a 1-hour brown bag lunch program on her research "Science in the American Style, 1690-1820: Texts, Objects, and Ideas in Popular Practice." 

Thursday, 2 February, at 6:00 PM, Ann Lucas Birle, International Center for Jefferson Studies, to discuss the recently published Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England: The Travel Diary of Ellen Wayles Coolidge, 1838-1839. This program, which will be preceded by a reception at 5:30 PM, is also free and open to the public. To ensure that we have a seat for you, please register for the event.  

Visit our online calendar for more details about the programs listed above. And please note that there is no building tour scheduled for Saturday, 4 February. Tours will resume on Saturday, 11 February at 10:00 AM.

This Week @ MHS

For those of you that like to attend MHS events, have you seen the new online events calendar?  If not, click here to view it.  The new calendar brings together all of our events in a easy to ready -- easy to transfer to your own pocket planner -- format.  Ongoing events, like exhibitions are listed on the left-hand side of the page.  And all event titles are linked to fuller descriptions of events with information about how to RSVP.  Enjoy!

Looking at this week, please note that the Boston Environmental History Seminar schedule for Tuesday evening, 10 January, has bee n postponed.  The new date for  "Moving Heaven and [Fish, Whales, and Shells]" is Tuesday, 24 January. Nate Deshmukh Towery, MIT Comment will present and Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut - Avery Point will give the comment.

On Wednesday, 11 January at noon, Millington Bergeson-Lockwood of George Mason University will present African American Politics and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Post-Civil War Boston. This presentation explores the range of African American political activism in Boston and how challenges for civil rights and political inclusion are entwined with transformations in the United States political party system and changes in the power of the national state. It seeks to uncover new avenues for exploring black and white political alliances and further expanding the political history of African American men and women.

And on Saturday, 14 January, our building tour, The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, departs our lobby at 10:00 AM.

Also note that the MHS will be closed on Monday, 16 January, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

This Week @ MHS

Looking for some intellectual engagement as a reprieve from the holiday madness? Look no further than the MHS this week.

On Tuesday, 13 December at 5:15 PM the final installment of 2011 for the Boston Environmental History Seminar brings Harvard University's Daniel Barber to the MHS to present his research Phase-Change: Maria Telkes after the Dover Sun House. Catherine Zipf, Salve Regina University, will provide the comment.

On Wednesday, 14 December at 11:00 AM come visit for a 1-hour gallery talk focused on our exhibition The Purchase by Blood. If you cannot make the gallery talk, remember that all MHS gallery spaces are free and open to the public Monday through Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.  

And on Saturday, 17 December the 90-minute tour The History and Collections of the MHS departs the front lobby at 10:00 AM.


Also note that the MHS library will be closing at 3:45 PM on Thursday, 15 December.