Board of Trustees & Council of Overseers

Board of Trustees

  • Benjamin C. Adams
  • Oliver F. Ames
  • Frederick D. Ballou
  • Levin H. Campbell, Jr.
  • Prof Joyce E. Chaplin 
  • Herbert P. Dane
  • G. Nathaniel Jeppson
  • Amalie M. Kass 
  • Anthony H. Leness
  • Anne Craige McNay
  • G. Marshall Moriarty
  • Claire Nee Nelson
  • Lisa B. Nurme
  • John O’Leary
  • Byron Rushing 
  • Paul W. Sandman
  • R. Newcomb Stillwell
  • William N. Thorndike
  • Edward L. Widmer 
  • Judith Bryant Wittenberg

Dennis A. Fiori, President


 

LIFE TRUSTEES

  • Bernard Bailyn
  • Honorable Levin H. Campbell
  • Henry Lee

TRUSTEE EMERITI

  • William C. Clendaniel
  • Nancy R. Coolidge
  • Arthur C. Hodges
  • John F. Moffitt
  • Lia G. Poorvu
  • L. Dennis Shapiro
  • J. Peter Spang
  • James M. Storey
  • John L. Thorndike
  • Hiller B. Zobel

Council of Overseers

  • Benjamin C. Adams
  • Nancy S. Anthony
  • Dean Atkins
  • Emily Brooks
  • John G. L. Cabot 
  • Richard W. Cheek
  • Constance B. Coburn
  • Amy Domini
  • Joan Fink
  • Newell Flather
  • Peter R.O. Fleiss
  • Deborah M. Gates
  • Henry Louis Gates
  • Jonathan Hecht
  • James DeK. Houghton
  • Susan W. Hunnewell
  • Rene F. Jones
  • Haven Ladd
  • Robin M. Lawrence
  • George Lewis
  • Janina Longtine
  • Jonathan Loring
  • Amelia Lloyd McCarthy
  • Elizabeth H. Owens
  • Thomas M. Paine
  • Anthony D. Pell
  • Robert Pemberton
  • George Putnam
  • Robert G. Ripley, Jr.
  • Cokie B. Roberts
  • Alan Rogers
  • Elizabeth G. Ryland
  • Mary Rogers Saltonstall
  • James W. Segel
  • Miles F. Shore
  • John L. Thorndike
  • W. Nicholas Thorndike
  • William P. Veillette
  • John Winthrop

Upcoming Events
MHS Tour

The History and Collections of the MHS

26Aug 10:00AM 2017

The History and Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Tour is a 90-minute docent-led walk through our public rooms. The tour is free, open to the public, ...
Brown Bag

The Liberator’s Legacy: Memory, Abolitionism, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1865-1965

6Sep 12:00PM 2017

The Liberator’s Legacy explores popular memory of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and their fellow abolitionists in the decades following the Civil ...
Author Talk

The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith

13Sep 6:00PM 2017
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.

In his long, cosmopolitan life, Galbraith wrote thousands of letters. Richard P. F. Holt has selected the most important of these and made them available in print for ...
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From our Blog

“Look out for boms”: The Trial and Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at Charlestown State Prison. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists convicted for killing ...

Descriptions of Eclipses: "Every body was looking and little was done"

On Monday, 21 August 2017, a solar eclipse will occur!  Many people in Boston are looking forward to 2:46 pm when they will (weather permitting!) experience what  it is like when the sun is ...

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