MHS News
Current newsletterIn Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry
Published: Monday, 10 September, 2012, 7:25 AM
The exhibition features some of the most exemplary types of mourning jewelry from early gold bands with death’s head iconography to jeweled brooches and intricately woven hairwork pieces
Mourning jewels, tangible expressions of love and sorrow, are the focus of [...] read more
Building Closed:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Monday, 21 January 2013
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Events
America's Second Revolution: New England, Old England, & the Civil War
2:00PM Saturday, 19 January 2013
Biography Seminar
Biographers' Round Table: A Conversation with Stacy Schiff
5:30PM Thursday, 24 January 2013
Exhibition
The Real Gettysburg Address
Exhibition Spotlight 2:00PM Friday, 25 January 2013
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From the Beehive
Recent Articles
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Collection Guide Complete
- George Washington Letter Donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Early Childhood Writings and Sketches of E.E. Cummings Uncovered at the MHS
- In Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry
- National History Day Finalist Uses MHS Collections
- Mr. Madison's War: The Controversial War of 1812
- New Slate of Officers Elected at Annual Meeting
- The MHS Welcomes 14 New Fellows
- John F. Kennedy Medal to be Awarded at Annual Meeting
- A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885
- Recent MHS Acquisitions Span One Century and Three Wars
- New Environmental History Fellowship Opportunity
- The MHS Welcomes 13 New Fellows
- The Purchase by Blood: Massachusetts in the Civil War, 1861-1862
- Unique set of Revolutionary-Era Newspaper Volumes Reunited at the MHS
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