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This online exhibition illustrates how cartoonists helped to tell the story of voting rights in the United States. View.
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In this letter, President Richard Nixon writes from the White House to former Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts after Nixon’s landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election. more.
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The rise of the Religious Right has coincided with the privatization movement in public schools. While some may feel that this is coincidental, there is reason to believe ...
In 1745, a group of New England volunteers who called themselves Patriots launched an expedition against the French fortress of Louisbourg, in present-day Nova Scotia. ...
Paul Szep, a two-time Pulitzer Prize and Thomas Nast Prize winning editorial cartoonist and New York Times best-selling author William Martin will discuss their careers. ...
View a selection of our favorite items from the MHS collection.
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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 Tucked away in the stacks of the Massachusetts Historical Society is a small but fascinating collection of letters of the Jarrett family, a Black family ...
By Megan Watts, MHS Digital Team summer intern Many things have served as symbols of status, political leanings, and wealth throughout United States history. One of the most iconic symbols of ...
by Olivia Chickering, Caroline Johnson, and Kate Melchior Every year, the MHS selects one or more high school students for our John Winthrop Student Fellowship. This award encourages high school ...
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