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How did the early American readers learn about the revolutionary events unfolding abroad in the late eighteenth century? What news could they trust, and what could they discard? This talk explores…
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…
Join us for this free one-day program for teachers, co-sponsored by…
This talk will explore Native women who appear in infanticide, domestic violence, and mysterious death cases throughout this period. Algonquian speaking women, though often victims, were also…
Join us for this three-day workshop as we explore…
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 talk will explore the print, manuscript, art, and artifact culture that freemasons created in the late 18th and 19th Centuries. As a social institution,…
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 talk will examine the historical roots of the American missions in the Middle East. These missions began amid the early nineteenth-century movement that historians call the Second Great…
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…
Over the past four centuries, Massachusetts’s…
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…
Meet John and Abigail Adams! Our hands-on workshop will introduce participants to this famous couple and their rich correspondence. What can these letters tell us about life in the late eighteenth…
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…
John Ferling will speak on his new book…
Rosenthal will discuss his current research project, Beyond Hawaiʻi: Native Labor in the Pacific World, which grows out of his dissertation. This work presents a history of Native…
On the evening of March 5, 1770, a confrontation between British soldiers and a boisterous crowd in front of the Custom House on King Street in Boston turned deadly. Five men were killed and nine…