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This project considers the development of a new post-Civil War genre of political novels specifically by looking at Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's The Gilded Age and Henry Adams'…
Between 1630 and 1763, multiple, intersecting captive trades developed in the colonial northeast as Native Americans, the English, and the French competed for geo-political power in the…
istory is right under our feet; we just need to dig a little to find…
Beginnings matter in literary histories, because they beget endings. Weyler will talk about some of the traditional inception points for literary histories of fiction in British America and the…
Most Puritan captivity narratives tell a tale of horror and fear. John Gyles, captured at the age of nine, tells a very different story of his upbringing among the Micmac and Maliseet peoples:…
Unlike their colonial counterparts who had a vested interested in keeping their sons close to home as a source of labor for the family farm or as an otherwise participant in the family business…
This program will be held at MIT's Morss Hall at the Walker Memorial Building (142 Memorial Drive - Cambridge)
This program will present an overview of Templier's dissertation research, which addresses how clothing and textiles, particularly valuable and exchangeable goods in the eighteenth-century…
Thomas Jefferson was not just the author of the Declaration…
Based on 10 years of research in northern and southern archives, Daina Ramey Berry will share some of her discoveries about the price of human chattel. Enslaved people were valued from before…
The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for reservations. If you…
The Private Jefferson represents a significant new use of technology in MHS exhibitions. This was made possible by Microsoft and a team of undergraduates at Brown University who created the Touch…
Feast, sip, and celebrate history at the sixth annual Cocktails with Clio!
Thursday, 12…
For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany…
What was it like getting old in a nation self-defined as a young nation? This research considers changes in how old men in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries self-conceptualized their…
The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, with no need for reservations. If you…
Inspired by the spectacular success of London's Crystal Palace Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in 1851, an enthusiastic group of New Yorkers hoped to repeat that achievement two years…
This essay will address the systems of human trafficking that circulated both Native American and English captives during King Phillip’s War. Using the examples of Mary Rowlandson and King Phillip…