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During the Civil War, all commercial relations between North and South were ruptured and declared treasonous. Nonetheless, a vigorous cotton trade between both sides re-emerged through the…
Cooking Boston: Ice Kings
Panelists Gus Rancatore, Jeri Quinzio, and Judy Herrell
Moderated by Kathleen Fitzgerald
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"They being stolne": Conflicting Views of Slavery and Governance in Early…
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 library closes at 2:30PM in preparation for the annual Strawberry Festival.
Registration is now closed. If you would like to make a donation in support of the event and the Center for the Teaching of History, please click on…
The MHS library and exhibition galleries are CLOSED for Memorial Day
The MHS library and exhibition galleries are CLOSED for Memorial Day
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General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during…
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…
Cooking Boston: Sweet Boston
Joyce Chaplin, Michael Krondl, Carla Martin and moderator Gavin Kleespies…
This session was previously scheduled for March 14, 2017.
Industrial logging operators used the winter weather, wood, simple machines, and muscle power alone to increase…
In his Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin argued that fashion’s pursuit of novelty functioned in modern society as an attempt to stave off the inevitability of death. Yet, in millinery…
The practice of slavery in the early…