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Sarah Parker Remond protests segregated seating at Boston’s Howard Athenaeum. Read more.
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Litigation in Essex County reveals where the African-born poet Phillis Wheatley Peters and her husband John Peters went when they left Boston for three years starting in ...
MHS is happy to invite its members and members of the public to join a free online book talk with Nathaniel Philbrick. The event, hosted by American Ancestors/NEHGS, the ...
This program is co-sponsored by American Ancestors/NEHGS, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Porter Square Books. Ryan J. Woods, Executive Vice President and ...
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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.
By Susan Martin, Senior Processing Archivist I think it’s fair to say that even the most seemingly mundane items here at the MHS tell an interesting story if you look at them closely enough. By ...
By Heather Rockwood, Communications Associate I grew up in Franklin, MA so I always knew the true legend about how in 1778, the town changed the name from Exeter to Franklin, in honor of Benjamin ...
By Viv Williams, Processing Assistant and Library Assistant In preparation for spooky season, I decided to pick up Stephen King’s infamous It. This 1100 page tome (45 hours in ...
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