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MHS Fellows are invited to the Society's annual business meeting. Following the meeting, enjoy a reception and view the Society's upcoming exhibition Turning Points in American History.…
The reading room closes at 3:45PM and the library closes at 4:00PM in preparation for an evening event.
Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in…
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 research traces the lives of the generation of black and white children, in the North, South, and West, who grew up during the Civil War era and were the first generation to come of age after…
Harvard Law School is the oldest and, arguably, the most influential…
Sharing new evidence from the British National Archives, Hutchins traces the circum-Atlantic journey of Massachusetts resident Briton Hammon. The enslaved Hammon published a narrative of his…
The American President is an account of American presidential…
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 explores Puritan and Native American efforts to build religious communities throughout the span of colonial New England. The study merges contemporary indigenous history with a…
Turning Points in American History examines 15 decisive moments when everything suddenly changed or a process began that would change what followed. These are not the only, or even the…
When the Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it…
The first half of the eighteenth century was a period of economic transformation for Britain’s North American colonies, during which colonial settlers were active agents in an increasingly…
In September 1774 Boston became the center of an “arms race” between Massachusetts’s royal government and…
Whereas most scholarship on slaveholding imperialism focuses on the Atlantic Basin, Waite argues that Southerners pursued an empire within the Pacific world as well. By tracking both proslavery…
The MHS library and exhibition galleries are closed.
The MHS library and exhibition galleries are closed.