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The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a 90-minute docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for…
This project focuses on women who worked as Indian doctresses and the clients who sought their care. The study strives to more fully integrate indigeneity into fields of study from which it is…
Between Prohibition and World War II, American law enforcement went from being seen as a brutal and incompetent political liability to a professional crime-fighting regime. This essay explores…
The term “amateur film” conjures visions of shaky, out-of-focus images depicting family vacations and kids’ birthday…
The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a 90-minute docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for…
Please join us for a special evening in which Tamara Plakins Thornton will receive the 2017 Gomes Prize for Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a 19th-…
After the Patent Act of 1790, patents played an important social and political role in the formation of American nationhood and citizenship. Part of a larger book project, this paper…
The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a 90-minute docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for…
James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the…
"Come, then, one and all, and learn to know yourselves." With these words, a traveling phrenologist advertised his lecture to the public. Proponents of phrenology — a controversial, influential…
In 1919, state engineers proposed solving Boston’s water supply crisis by damming the Swift River, flooding a western Massachusetts valley and evicting 2,500 people. The contentious six-year…
The MHS is CLOSED in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a 90-minute docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for…
The exhibition galleries are CLOSED on Monday, 8 January, and Tuesday, 9 January. Normal hours resume on Wednesday, 10 January.
The exhibition galleries are CLOSED on Monday, 8 January, and Tuesday, 9 January. Normal hours resume on Wednesday, 10 January.
The MHS will return to regular operating hours on Saturday, January 6. The library will be open 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The galleries will be open 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The docent-led…
Today's scheduled tour has been cancelled. The exhibition galleries will be open, so you can still enjoy the opportunity to view our current exhibition: Yankees in the West.
Due to inclement weather the MHS will be closed on Friday, January 5.