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@MHS Electronic Newsletter

In The Media
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15 December 2006.
The Internet Scout Project, focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata, links to the MHS' The Diaries of John Quincy Adams. The Scout Report...
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9 May 2006.
An article about Anthony Burns in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star mentions artifacts from the collections of the MHS relating to his escape from slavery.
Free Lance-Star story...
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23 April 2006.
144-year-old diary of Dedham hero, possibly the only one of its kind, granted to the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Boston Globe report...
Daily News Transcript report...
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13 April 2006.
Connecticut College professor has received a year-long fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society-National Endowment of the Humanities...
More information...
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23 March 2006.
MHS Council Vice President William Saltonstall and Librarian Peter Drummey are quoted in a Salem News article.
More information...
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9 March 2006.
At auburnpub.com, author Timothy Kenslea discusses his book, "Sedgwicks in Love", based on Sedgwick family papers from the collections of the MHS.
More information...
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13 January 2006.
Maine Antique Digest reports on the sale of a rare portrait by Benjamin Blyth, which was researched at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
More information...
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10 January 2006.
NECN's morning program, Good Morning Live interviews Gerald Parker regarding his photos of Brockton which appear in
the Massachusetts Historical Review.
Watch the interview online
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25 December 2005.
Peter Drummey is quoted in a Boston Globe article about Ben Franklin, Samuel Sewall, and other Bostonians who have "quit Boston for greener pastures".
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24 December 2005.
In the Boston Globe, MHS librarian Peter Drummey theorizes on the obscure Boxing Day law that may have been meant to curb drunkeness on the day Christmas is observed by the state.
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9 December 2005. Departing Director of the MHS, Bill Fowler shares the gossip pages with
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in today's Boston Globe. (No, Bill isn't dating J-Lo).
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9 December 2005. MHS Director Bill Fowler is mentioned in an article about the
'The Essex Result' in the Daily News of Newburyport.
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5 December 2005. A Bangor Daily News article about Benjamin Edes, a Boston printer and one of the Sons of Liberty,
refers to a Boston Tea Party artifact from the collections of the MHS.

Benjamin Edes co-founded the Boston Gazette and Country Journal in 1754 with John Gill.
Issues of the Boston Gazette and Country Journal can also be found in the
MHS collections (search the online catalog for "Boston Gazette").
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12 December 2005. MHS Stephen T. Riley Librarian Peter Drummey is quoted in a Boston Globe article about Massachusetts blue laws.
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15 November 2005. The MHS is referenced in a Thanksgiving article recently posted on the website of
The Christian History Institute.
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3 November 2005. The MHS is mentioned twice on the first page of an article on Tim Kenslea's book
The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage in the Early Republic in the
Lexington Minuteman.
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David Reynolds' new biography of John Brown was reviewed in the
New York Times Book Review 17 April 2005. Mr. Reynolds will speak at
the MHS 28 April 2005.
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Megan Marshall was interviewed and photographed at the MHS for an upcoming feature in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine,
due to appear sometime in the near future.
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CSPAN will air the Joe Ellis lecture on "His Excellency: George Washington"
on Monday, January 24 at 3:30 pm EST. The lecture was filmed at the MHS on 16 December 2004.
http://www.c-span.org/
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WCVB-TV's Chronicle (Boston Channel 5) features photographs from the MHS collection of
Edmund March Wheelwright's architecture in their "Recycled Boston" program.
The program aired Wednesday, 22 September 2004 at 7:30 PM.
More...
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In the 12 September 2004 Sunday Boston Globe Magazine section, an article titled Bookworms profiles the MHS and
author Rachel Ellner interviews MHS Stephen T. Riley Librarian, Peter Drummey. Click here to view the
article in the Boston Globe's online archives, (requires paid subscription).
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MHS Associate Librarian & Curator of Manuscripts is quoted in an article in the
Harvard Crimson about Harvard's new archivist. More...
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The Scout Report has included the MHS website in it's latest listings of notable websites. More...
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The Jefferson collections at MHS are mentioned in the last paragraph of
this article in the Richmond Times Dispatch.
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MHS Photograph Cataloger, Megan Friedel is quoted in the
26 February 2004 Boston Globe.

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