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Of all the founding fathers,…
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 MHS library is closed for the day; the galleries remain open, 10:00AM-4:00PM.
Evidence of waning public interest in history appears widespread--in declining visits to historic sites, falling numbers of college majors, and a general decline in reading for pleasure. But does…
The reading room closes at 4:00PM and the library closes at 4:15PM in preparation for an evening event.
This project explores the development of youth volunteering in the United States in the twentieth century. Although this phenomenon is most closely associated with the Peace Corps, it was…
The MHS library and exhibition galleries are closed.
The MHS library is closed; the exhibition galleries are open, 10:00AM-4:00PM.
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 Puritans of seventeenth-century New England generally had few objections to slavery. Those of their descendants who flocked to the antislavery cause from 1830 to the American Civil War were…
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 offers a new interpretation of the history of black Union soldiers by placing the troops’ service in the context of slave-soldiers’ service and emancipation throughout the Atlantic…
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 event is sold…
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…
Investigate American whaling in…
How did the Civil War change the way Americans thought about their country's role in global affairs? This talk examines how the struggle for the Union exercised a powerful and lasting--but deeply…
This project examines the figure of the transgressive mother in the United States from 1768 to 1868, a period in which an idealized version of motherhood began to be seen as integral to the…