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MHS E-mail Newsletter July/August 2005 Welcome! Welcome to the first anniversary edition of @MHS! For the last year, this bi-monthly newsletter has kept you informed of events and milestones at the MHS and provided updates on new publications and website exhibitions. We hope you will continue to find this newsletter useful and informative. We would love to hear from you, so please send your thoughts and suggestions to webmaster@masshist.org. Southworth & Hawes Daguerreotypes to Appear in Major Exhibition 
 Some of the finest examples from the MHS daguerreotypes collection are included in a major exhibition, Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, presented jointly by the George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography. The exhibition showcases more than 150 daguerreotypes by the famed 19th-century Boston daguerreotypists including the MHS's daguerreotypes of Lemuel Shaw, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, shipbuilder Donald McKay, and the branded hand of Capt. Jonathan Walker, among others. For more information about the exhibition and daguerreotypes at MHS: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=13 The exhibition will travel to the Addison Gallery in Andover, Mass., 28 January–9 April 2006: http://www.andover.edu/addison/exhibit.htm Object of the Month 
This month's feature, titled "A Covenant with Death and an Agreement with Hell," discusses an 1854 broadside advertising a Fourth of July rally sponsored by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. At the rally, noted abolitionists including William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, and Henry David Thoreau addressed the crowd, and in a dramatic climax Garrison burned copies of the Fugitive Slave Law and the United States Constitution. Click here to see the Object of the Month: http://www.masshist.org/objects/ Coming in August: Abraham Lincoln reveals his personal views on slavery to his closest friend 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. Mr. Lint presented a paper on John Adams's
contributions to Dutch-American relations and, with Ms. Hogan, answered questions from the audience. The program
included the presentation of the two most recent volumes of the Adams Papers to the mayor of Amsterdam. The
Consul General of the United States held a reception following the program recognizing the exhibition and
celebrating America's Independence Day. Mr. Lint and Ms. Hogan toured Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam, and The Hague as guests of the John Adams Institute, the sponser of the program at the Amsterdam Museum. For more information: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=14 MHS Education Initiative School may be out for the summer, but the MHS education initiative has never been busier! Once again, we will welcome six teacher fellows to the Society this summer, each of whom will spend four weeks combing our collections to create primary-source-based classroom activities. In July, we will welcome 20 additional teachers for a series of seminars related to our National Endowment for the Humanities project The Coming of the American Revolution (1764-1776): A Web-Based Timeline/Documentary History. We are also delighted to have eight exceptional student interns assisting us with the NEH project this summer. For more information about teacher fellowships: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/swensrud.cfm For more information about the NEH project: http://www.masshist.org/education/neh_project.cfm MHS Awarded NEH "We the People" Grant The National Endowment for the Humanities named the MHS the recipient of a three-year "We the People" grant to convert 45 volumes of previously published Winthrop Family and Adams Family documents to a fully searchable digital form. Harvard University Press, through its Belknap Press, the publisher of all Adams volumes to date, has endorsed and will help support this important conversion. For more information: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=15 
More Back Issues of MHR Online!You can now read all past volumes of the Massachusetts Historical Review online at the History Cooperative service provided by the University of Illinois Press. Simply click the link below to learn more — all back issues of the MHR are available completely free of charge. http://www.masshist.org/periodicals/mhr.cfm This e-mail newsletter is provided to subscribers who have voluntarily elected to receive it or have had past business dealings with MHS (in accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and our privacy policy). If you no longer wish to receive these e-mails, click the link at the bottom of this message to unsubscribe immediately. If you wish to change your e-mail address, please e-mail your request to membership@masshist.org, with your full name, old e-mail, and new e-mail. |