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New Orleans has maintained a complicated relationship with the Mississippi River, which offers both a means of commerce and the threat of flooding. A massive plan to restore coastal wetlands…
Using the correspondence between Theodore…
Library will be closed all day, Friday, 4 December. The Exhibition Galleries will be open, 10:00AM-4:00PM.
A high percentage of Boston's population move to the…
The American home front is often thought of as a mostly safe refuge from the violence and suffering of World War Two. Yet, the arrival of millions of soldiers and sailors brought crime, rioting,…
This project explores how early republican Americans used physiognomy—the “science” of interpreting facial features—to distinguish between the minds of men and women. The work examines diaries of…
The MHS library will be closed all day. The Galleries will be open from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The MHS library will be closed all day. The Galleries will be open from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The MHS Library and Galleries will be closed all day.
This paper traces the rise and enduring presence of the notorious African Dodger game, in which patrons paid a nickel for a chance to throw a ball at the head of an African American male. The game…
In the rotunda of the nation's Capital a statue pays…
Historian Margaret Newell, author of Brethren by Nature, leads a discussion of the enslavement of Native Americans from the first years of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Starting with the…
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…
Ronald Grim, Curator of Maps at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, will discuss the history of map collecting in relation to Terra Firma: The Beginnings of the MHS Map Collection.
Note: This program will take place at the MIT Stata Center (Vassar Street near Main), room 33-123. This is a four minute walk from the Kendall…
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…