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Adams Digital Collection

Abigail Adams letterImages and searchable transcriptions of the correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, the diary of John Adams, and the autobiography of John Adams.

Adams Papers Digital Edition

Volumes from the Adams Papers Editorial ProjectDigital edition of the content of the previously printed documentary editions of The Adams Papers; includes full annotations, index, and a search tool.

Diaries of John Quincy Adams

JQA Diaries website logoImages of all the pages (over 14,000) within 51 volumes of John Quincy Adams's diary, ranging in date from 1779 to 1848.

NEW: JQA Diary Digital Project

Read and search transcriptions of the Secretary of State years, September 1817 to February 1821.

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Civil War Diaries of Charles Francis Adams

Charles Francis AdamsUnverified, searchable transcriptions of Charles Francis Adams’ Diary from 1 January 1861 to 30 April 1865

To locate additional online content related to the Adams family, such as the John Quincy Adams Twitter Project, Letters Behind the HBO Miniseries on John Adams, and Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams photographs, please use our Online Resources tool.

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Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar

Murder at the Manhattan Well: The Personal and the Political in the Election of 1800

19Nov 5:15PM 2019

In 1800, journeyman carpenter, Levi Weeks, was accused of murdering Guliema Sands, a young woman living in the same boarding house. Using the trial transcript, this paper ...
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Housing as History: New Directions for Boston’s Subsidized Housing: Learning from the Past

20Nov 6:00PM 2019
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As neighborhoods across Boston face enormous development pressure, there is a risk that low-income residents will be forced out of the city. Social disruption due to ...
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Mary Church Terrell’s Intersectional Black Feminism

21Nov 5:15PM 2019

Civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) highlighted the intersections of race and sex in black women’s lives. This paper focuses on Terrell’s ...
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This Week @MHS

Join us for a program this week! Here is a look at what is going on: - Tuesday, 29 January, 5:15 PM: Better Teaching through Technology, 1945-1969, with Victoria Cain, Northeastern ...

Founder to Founder

Like so many good stories here at the Historical Society, it began with a reference question. Jeremy Belknap, hunting through his sources, asked Vice President John Adams for some help. Belknap, the ...

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