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Join us for a tour of the Society's public rooms. Led by an MHS staff member or docent, the tour touches on the history and collections of the MHS and lasts approximately 90 minutes.
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Join us for a tour of the Society's public rooms. Led by an MHS staff member or docent, the tour touches on the history and collections of the MHS and lasts approximately 90 minutes.
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During the period that scholars have identified as the "long civil rights movement," black women entertainers were among the performers who used their status as celebrities to support black…
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This paper will examine patterns in the popular linkage between marital and political infidelities over a range of espionage cases from the start of the Revolutionary War. Drawing on new findings…
Ellen Wayles Coolidge arrived in London in June 1838 at the advent of Queen Victoria's reign--the citizens were still celebrating the coronation. During her nine-month stay, Coolidge kept a diary…
This project argues that the study of early American science needs to move beyond the long shadow of Benjamin Franklin and his kite. McMillin therefore investigates a much more diverse cast of…
Korean adoption, which Oh argues has been crucial to the development of intercountry adoption, began in the 1950s in the aftermath of the Korean War. Moved by the plight of mixed-race "GI babies"…
Join us for a tour of the Society's public rooms. Led by an MHS staff member or docent, the tour touches on the history and collections of the MHS and lasts approximately 90 minutes.
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Since the English colonization of North America in 1620, the resources of New England’s coastal waters have supported the economic and cultural systems of what is now the Commonwealth of…
Join us for a tour of the Society's public rooms. Led by an MHS staff member or docent, the tour touches on the history and collections of the MHS and lasts approximately 90 minutes.
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The diary and autobiographical writings of Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, the British-born wife of John Quincy Adams, will be…
Join us for a tour of the Society's public rooms. Led by an MHS staff member or docent, the tour touches on the history and collections of the MHS and lasts approximately 90 minutes.
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African American men and women in post-Civil War Boston were a significant voice in urban and national politics. They gave shape to new understandings of freedom and citizenship as they…