The MHS Library and Galleries will be closed all day.  

The MHS Library will be closed all day.  Galleries will be open from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Royal commissioners arrived in Massachusetts Bay in 1664, demanding that colonists demonstrate submission to the king by expanding baptism and the franchise. Their actions provoked a crisis as…

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…

MHS Fellows are invited to the Society's annual business meeting. A reception will follow the meeting.

Please call 617-646-0572 with any questions.

In order to accommodate our Annual Meeting, the library will be closing at 3:30 PM.

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 project employs the approach of "Commodity Chain Analysis" and explores production, transaction, transportation, and consumption of tea in China and the United States. MHS hold collections of…

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…

Although Boston does not have a city historical society, it has a wealth of neighborhood organizations. From the North End to the South End and from Brighton to Dorchester, Bostonians are steeped…

This talk, part of a larger doctoral dissertation project titled, “Navigating Wilderness and Borderland: Environment and Culture in the Northern Americas during the American Revolution, 1775 -…

Antebellum New England factories unleashed a representational crisis as they drew farmers' daughters out of the home. Factory women and their contemporaries entered print culture to debate the…

Join us for the third of our lively Massachusetts Historical Society/Partnership of Historic Bostons co-hosted discussions exploring the origins of Boston and its…

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…

Author and activist, Jim Vrabel…

This project investigates the history of rum in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In particular, it examines the processes of invention, commodification, innovation, and transformation…

This project gives an overview of serial fiction in the early republic and explores its particular uses and features. What role did seriality play in the lives of authors, writers, and editors?…