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MHS Email Newsletter November/December 2005 Welcome! Welcome to the November/December edition of @MHS! This bi-monthly newsletter is designed to keep you informed of events and milestones at the MHS and provides updates on new publications and website exhibitions. We hope you find this newsletter useful and informative. Please send your feedback to webmaster@masshist.org — we would love to hear from you. 
MHS Appoints New Director The MHS has announced that, after an extensive search and careful deliberation by its Council, Dennis A. Fiori has been appointed as Director. Mr. Fiori replaces Dr. William M. Fowler, who will return to Northeastern University as Distinguished Professor of History at the end of the calendar year. Mr. Fiori plans to begin at the MHS on 16 January 2006. Click here for more information: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=19 Remembering Ellen Stevens Ellen Stevens, the director of the Historical Society's capital campaign, recently passed away after a long fight with cancer. This was a great loss to the MHS as an institution, and a personal blow to officers and staff members of the Society who, in a relatively short time, had come to value her as an inspiring colleague and warm friend. Click here for more information: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=21 Herbert Ross Brown Prize 
The New England Quarterly
announces that the 2005 Herbert Ross Brown Prize in New England Literary History has been awarded to Joshua
David Bellin for his essay "Taking the Indian Cure: Thoreau, Indian Medicine, and the Performance of
American Culture." The essay will be published in a forthcoming issue of NEQ.Submissions for the 2006 prize are now being accepted for consideration. Click here for more information: http://www.newenglandquarterly.org/brown/ 
Object of the Month This month's Object of the Month is Broadside by Jeremiah Newland responding to the Cape Ann Earthquake of November 1755. Click here to see the Object of the Month: http://www.masshist.org/objects/ Coming in December: A Christmas eve letter from William Tudor, serving in the Continental Army under George Washington. Upcoming Events Thursday, 1 December 2005 Boston Early American History Seminar 
Cindy R. Lobel, Connecticut College"'The Empire of Gastronomy': New York City's Food Markets, 1750-1850" Click here for more information: http://www.masshist.org/events/beahs.cfm Tuesday, 6 December 2005 Boston Environmental History Seminar David Whelpley, Northeastern University "Boston Harbor and Secondary Treatment: A Legislative History of §301 (h) of the Clean Water Act" Click here for more information: http://www.masshist.org/events/behs.cfm Click here for a complete list of upcoming events: http://www.masshist.org/events/index.cfm?seminarview=true 
Call for Fellowship Applications Are you interested in spending a term or a year doing research at the MHS? Applications for MHS/NEH Fellowships must be postmarked by 15 January 2006. The MHS is also accepting fellowship applications from public and parochial/independent K-12 schoolteachers and media specialists for the Summer 2006 Adams and Swensrud Teacher Fellowship Programs. Click here for information on fellowships at MHS: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/. 
Happy Holidays!The staff at MHS would like to wish you a happy holiday season with these (somewhat unusual!) items from the collections at the MHS that we have featured in years past. Ben Franklin Tries to Electrocute a Turkey http://www.masshist.org/exhibitions/obj_turkey.cfm Ben Franklin's Holiday Punch Recipe http://www.masshist.org/objects/2004december.cfm Santa Claus Bank Note http://www.masshist.org/exhibitions/obj_santa.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. |