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Staff News
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Anne Bentley Receives Numismatic Award
Anne Bentley, curator of art, recently received the 23rd annual Earl V. Tuttle Award from the Boston Numismatic Society for her presentation "Selected examples of Boston Scrip in the Currency Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society." Scrip is a term for privately printed notes that served as currency during periods of shortage. The MHS has a particularly rich collection of this material issued by Boston merchants between 1800 and 1865.
more on the collection...
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Susan Martin to Join Library Staff
Susan Martin, a recent graduate of the Simmons archives program, will be joining the library staff on Monday, April 10th as our new Finding Aid Conversion Specialist. This is a one year, grant funded position. She has a BA from George Washington University and has had several archives internships and part-time positions at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Northeastern, the National Archives in Waltham, and the Harvard Fine Arts Library. .
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Anne Bentley to speak at Numismatics Symposium in Denver
MHS Curator of Art, Anne Bentley has been invited to speak at the first ever Women in Numismatics Symposium in Denver this coming August.
Founded in 1991 to promote and encourage women in the field of coin and medal collecting, Women in Numismatics is joining
with the American Numismatic Association to sponsor the symposium.
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Rebecca Imperiali has been hired as MHS's first Director of Development
and will be overseeing all the Society's fundraising efforts. Imperiali
was most recently
Planned Giving Senior Advancement Officert for the Museum of Science in
Boston.
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14 March 2006
Dennis Fiori Welcomed as New MHS Director
More than 120 members and friends of Society, including friends and former colleagues of Mr. Fiori
from his previous career as director of the Concord Museum, in Concord, MA, attended a festive event
to welcome Dennis Fiori as the sixth director of the MHS.
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7 July 2005
Amsterdam Historical Museum welcomes Adams Papers editors
Adams Papers editors Gregg Lint and Margaret Hogan participated in a fourth of July program at
the Amsterdam Historical Museum where a new John
Adams exhibition opened.
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8 April 2005
Fowler to Resign as MHS Director
In January 2006, Dr. William M. Fowler, Jr., will return to Northeastern University,
where he had previously been a leading member of the History Department.
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SAVOIR FAIRE: The French and Indian War
William Fowler Jr. speaks at the Canada National Library & Archives.
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Accolades for MHS Editor's new book:
Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War
Edited by Donald Yacovone
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New Book Release:
Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
By William M. Fowler, Jr.
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The New England Environmental History Initiative
Earlier this month, MHS Archival Fellow Cheryl Beredo gave a talk on the Society's program to ensure the
preservation of records that document New England's environmental history and bring information about this
history to the widest possible audience.
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