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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…
Thomas Jefferson is still presented today…
Between 1775 and 1783, the American Revolution drove more than 60,000 Loyalists from their homes and scattered them throughout the British Empire, but correspondence linked them together and…
This research comes from a book project entitled "Neighborhoods First: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation." It explores how the U.S. financial system shaped, and…
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…
Decades before Longfellow told the story of Paul Revere’s ride, before Poe published his "Dream within a Dream" in a newspaper on Tremont Street, before Emerson and Whitman took their famous…
Thomas Jefferson was a man of…
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Handling the papers of the founding fathers requires an unflinching confidence in your technical ability. Anne Bentley, MHS's curator, will discuss her conservation work on one of the canonical…
In June, 1945, at the conference in San Francisco that created the United Nations, a group of Latin American feminists pushed “women’s rights” into the category of international human rights in…
How did environmental politics survive the de-regulation, economic crisis, and nativism of the 1970s? What compromises did environmental activists make? This paper engages with these questions…
Twenty five years ago, Boston undertook the largest transportation project in recent American history. After years of planning, ground was broken for the Big Dig in 1991, kicking off a 16-year…
Join independent historian Dwight Mackerron and those who love 17th-century history to talk about King Philip's War. It was per capita the bloodiest war in American history. The war created a…
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…
In preparation for an evening event, the library closes at 1:00PM. The galleries remain open until 4:00PM.
THIS EVENT IS FILLED. Novelists often go to great lengths in researching past lives only to turn their findings into fiction. In a discussion moderated by Megan Marshall,…
In preparation for an evening event, the library closes at 4:15PM.