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This elegant volume featuring twenty watercolor sketches from nature and two contemporary views of Brook Farm was created by Marianne Dwight during her time at Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Read more.
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Building Closed:
MHS closed
Monday, 6 April 2020
Building Closed:
MHS closed
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Building Closed:
MHS closed
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
As the French abolitionist movement gathered momentum alongside the Revolution, Parisians could have seen hundreds of theatrical performances on themes related to race ...
Long before industrialization, New Englanders dammed their rivers. The dams that powered saw and grist mills saved farmers days of backbreaking labor, but they also ...
In 1862, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison summarized the Civil War: “There is a war because there was a Republican Party. There was a Republican Party because ...
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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 Anna Clutterbuck-Cook, Reference Librarian Since the Massachusetts Historical Society closed its building at 1154 Boylston to staff and the public on 11 March, I have been working from home ...
by Elyssa Tardif, Director of Education True to our 2020 theme “Breaking Barriers,” National History Day in Massachusetts has transitioned for the first time ever to a virtual contest! ...
by Susan Martin, Processing Archivist & EAD Coordinator A few years ago, I posted to the Beehive about Noah Worcester of the Massachusetts Peace Society and his objections to the way ...
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