This Week @MHS
Looking for something to do before the Thanksgiving holiday? Here's a look at what is planned at the MHS this week: - Monday, 19 November, 6:00 PM: Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic ...
More than 40 to be awarded in 4 fellowship programs. First deadline: January 15. Learn more.
Depicting Hamilton in the style of a Roman senator, this marble bust has become the iconic image of the Founding Father and has been used as the model for posthumous portraits, sculptures, and even a postage stamp.More
Explore the ways in which the multiple meanings of fashion and fashionable goods are reflected in patterns of consumption and refashioning, recycling, and retaining favorite family pieces. View
One of the founding fathers of the United States, Hamilton was a lawyer and political writer, a Revolutionary War officer, member of the Continental Congress, and the first Secretary of the Treasury. Explore Items from the MHS related to Hamilton, including pamphlets and letters by Hamilton and others. More
From Oct. 2018 to Nov. 2019, the Massachusetts Historical Society and a group of partner organizations will offer engaging programs and educational opportunities to commemorate Abigail Adams. Join the celebration! More
Building Closed:
Thanksgiving
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Building Closed:
Thanksgiving Friday
Friday, 23 November 2018
Building Closed:
Thanksgiving Saturday
Saturday, 24 November 2018
As the nation’s first historical society, the MHS strives to enhance the understanding of our nation’s past and its connection to the present, demonstrating that history is not just a series of events that happened to individuals long ago but is integral to the fabric of our daily lives. More about the MHS
This talk examines the American debates over the country’s participation in the eight-nation alliance to relieve the Chinese Boxers’ siege of internationals ...
Historians generally treat Jim Crow as a legal, political, and cultural system shaping where African Americans went, whether they voted, and how they acted. Yet it was ...
This talk explores American attempts to construct transportation infrastructures in Panama between the creation of the Panama Railroad and the Carter-Torrijos Treaties. ...
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The Adams Family Papers consist of the writings of two presidents—John Adams and John Quincy Adams—and their families. View documents and transcriptions, biographies, a timeline, and more.
The Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, containing almost 9,000 pages of correspondence, personal manuscript volumes, and more than 400 architectural drawings, is the largest gathering of the personal papers of our third president.
Comprised of manuscripts, photographs, books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, graphics, newspapers, works of art, and artifacts, MHS collections are unparalleled in their importance for the study of American history.
Looking for something to do before the Thanksgiving holiday? Here's a look at what is planned at the MHS this week: - Monday, 19 November, 6:00 PM: Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic ...
In 1849, the ship Lanerk sailed from Boston to California as part of the Gold Rush. On the ship was a clergyman named Truman Ripley Hawley, and the MHS recently acquired a transcript of his diary of ...
