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Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the…
After Union forces captured the Sea Islands of South Carolina at the end of 1862, well-educated Northerners from wealthy families journeyed to South Carolina, charged by the federal government…
This essay examines the connection between poetry and evangelicalism in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It argues that the far-reaching social transformations precipitated by…
Thomas Jefferson has been described as an "American Sphinx." As the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, he is one of the most famous Americans…
MHS Fellows and Members are invited to a special breakfast preview. For those who are unable to attend the preview the night before, we will open the galleries at 9…
This project traces women’s participation in New York’s transition to market capitalism in the early republic, placing the growth of the city’s marketplace into dialogue with shifting legal and…
Groeger's project traces the shift in the central site of preparation for work from informal on-the-job training in the late 19th century to formal schooling by the 1930s, using the city of…
Join Christopher Benfey and Megan Marshall in a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Susan Ware about teaching, reviewing, and writing biography. Christopher Benfey, Mt. Holyoke College, is the…
Asked for a religious affiliation, many Americans now begin their reply with, “Well, I was raised…” but family stories of religious life in American history are curiously rare.…
The MHS library and exhibition galleries are closed.
This talk examines Connecticut minister Jared Eliot's An Essay Upon Field-Husbandry in New England as It Is or May Be Ordered (1748), with a particular focus on Eliot's identification of…
This seminar will assess the environmental consequences of aviation, studying the entire twentieth century with an emphasis on the transition to jets in the 1950s and 1960s. It will examine the…
Sixty years ago, the residents of Boston were…
In the 1960s, large fleets of technologically sophisticated factory trawlers from Europe began competing with American and Canadian fishers in the Northwest Atlantic. When catches began to…
The MHS Library will be closed all day. Galleries will be open from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The MHS Library and Galleries will be closed all day.