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This pamphlet contains a narrative and 31 testimonies describing the infamous Boston Massacre with an eye toward exonerating the soldiers involved in the incident and promoting the loyalist cause. Read more.
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Voices from the Boston MassacreOctober 31st through June 30th, 2020. Exhibition details.
Preview and learn more about the Massacre on our companion website.
Ben Railton argues that throughout our history two competing yet interconnected concepts have battled to define our national identity and community: exclusionary and ...
This project explores the ways through which New England merchants, ship captains, sailors, and missionaries who were living and working throughout the Pacific’s ...
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the infamous Boston Massacre, we will explore the events leading up to it and the conflict's aftermath, which played out both in the ...
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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 Florentina Gutierrez, Library Assistant Browsing through processed archival collections can sometimes lead to unexpected surprises. Recently, I was going through a box of the Channing Family ...
Here is a look at what is going on at the MHS this week: On Tuesday, 25 February, ...
by Gavin W. Kleespies, Director of Programs, Exhibitions and Community Partnerships As many of our readers may know, we are approaching a big anniversary in Boston. The 250th anniversary of the ...
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