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MHS E-mail Newsletter March/April 2005 Welcome! Welcome to the March/April edition of @MHS! This bi-monthly newsletter will keep you informed of events and milestones at the MHS and will provide updates on new publications and website exhibitions. We hope you will find this newsletter useful and informative. Please send your feedback to webmaster@masshist.org — we would love to hear from you. 
Price Current Goes to Canada On 4 March, Bill Fowler and Ingrid Parent, Assistant Deputy Minister, Documentary Heritage Collection of the Library Archives Canada, formally signed an agreement to lend the Society's Nathans and Hart "Price Current" broadside to the Canadian library. Printed by John Bushell in Halifax, N.S., in 1752, this is the only known copy of the broadside, one of Canada's earliest imprints. View the broadside online: http://www.masshist.org/database/onview.cfm?queryID=403 
Object of the Month This month's feature discusses Deborah Sampson Gannett, who served in the Continental Army for 17 months during the American Revolution disguised as a man. Click here to see the Object of the Month: http://www.masshist.org/objects/ Coming in April: Phillis Wheatley's writing desk Read the MHR Online! 
Through the History Cooperative, an electronic archive of selected academic journals, you can now read past volumes of the Massachusetts Historical Review with a click of your computer mouse. We are honored to join the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the William & Mary Quarterly, and several other journals in the subscription-based service provided by the University of Illinois Press. But all you have to do is click the link below or visit the Society's website and the first three volumes of the MHR are available completely free of charge. In the coming weeks, we will post the next two volumes. http://www.masshist.org/periodicals/mhr.cfm Upcoming Events 
Thursday, 14 April James Grant, lecture and booksigning John Adams: Party of One Click here to learn more about this event: http://www.masshist.org/events/more_info.cfm?eventID=68 Complete list of upcoming events at MHS: http://www.masshist.org/events/index.cfm?seminarview=true Online Finding Aids Approach Milestone In January 2004, the Society began making its finding aids, narrative descriptions of manuscript or photograph collections, available online. During the past year the number of online finding aids has increased from an initial 45 to almost 200. That growth represents both the conversion of existing collection guides and the creation of new finding aids. All of the Society's photograph collection guides are available online, as well as more than half of the finding aids for its manuscript collections. To search or browse the Society's online finding aids, click here: http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/ Panama Canal Voyage Recently, Corresponding Member John Winthrop participated in a trip through the Panama Canal led by David McCullough, author of Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Simon & Schuster, 1978). Mr. Winthrop has provided an account of their trip which is posted in News and Announcements. Click here to read the story: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=09 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. |