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Although he is known as the “Father of Acadia,” George Bucknam Dorr’s seminal…
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 talk will examine the history of the exclusion and deportation of foreigners from the United States based on their beliefs, associations, and/or expressions, from the Alien Act of 1798 to the…
This essay will examine the institutional and cultural factors behind promotional literature, the body of colonial sources written for metropolitan audiences. All share the common intent of…
Due to weather conditions on Friday night and predictions for Saturday, the library is CLOSED on Saturday, 4/1.
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…
Even as eighteenth-century thinkers from John Locke…
Hughes will discuss her monograph-in-progress, inspired by the diary of U.S. actor Harry Watkins (1825-1894). In “An Actor’s Tale,” she deploys Watkins’s diary in order to offer an “alternative…
The ships that carried Irish famine victims across the Atlantic also carried tragic accounts of those left behind; in response, North Americans sent millions of dollars to relieve rural suffering…
The Irish Atlantic Series
As news of…
"Slavery in Early Boston" is the first of three Partnership of Historic Bostons discussions this spring about slavery and servitude in early Massachusetts.
This discussion will explore…
Program 2: Portrait of a Woman in Silk
The nuclear strategy of mutual assured destruction has come to symbolize the prevailing rationality of the atomic age. This talk will highlight the work of intellectuals who deployed alternative…
Program 1: Republic of Taste
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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…
Program 1: Refined to Rustic
Keith Stavely will explore the role Boston has played from being the home of early European refinement to the rise of the Colonial Revival rustic…
POSTPONED: This program has been rescheduled for May 16, 2017.
Industrial logging operators used the winter weather, wood, simple machines, and muscle power alone to…
Due to inclement weather the MHS library and galleries will be closed on Tuesday, 14 March.