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MHS E-mail Newsletter September/October 2005 Welcome! Welcome to the September/October 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. Notice to researchers  We have made changes in our reading room procedures to improve the security of our collections. For more information: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=17 MHS receives grant for "African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts" digitization project 
The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners has awarded the MHS a grant to digitize primary sources that document "African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts." For more information: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=16 Object of the Month 
This month's feature, William Burgis's view of Harvard College in 1726, was the first engraving to focus on an American college. Of the three buildings portrayed in the engraving, only one, Massachusetts Hall, survives today. Conrad Edick Wright, the Society's Ford Editor of Publications and the author of a recent study of the boys and men who attended Harvard before the War for Independence, discusses the engraving and higher education in the American colonies in 1726. Click here to see the Object of the Month: http://www.masshist.org/objects/ Coming in October: Ambrotype of Ralph Farnham, who was celebrated in Boston in 1860 at age 104 as the last remaining veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill. NEQ Whitehall Contest 
The New England Quarterly and
The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Announce the 2005 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History. This prize of two thousand five
hundred dollars, established in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill, for many years Editor of Publications for
the Colonial Society and the moving force behind the organization, will be awarded for a distinguished essay
on colonial history, not previously published, with preference being given to New England subjects.
The winning essay will be published in an appropriate issue of The New England Quarterly.For more information: http://www.newenglandquarterly.org/whitehill/ Annual Dinner 
At the Society's annual dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston on 8 September, 300 MHS fellows, members, and distinguished guests heard Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough advocate the renewal of the close historical ties between the United States and France. Mr. McCullough drew upon examples from Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Josephine Baker and Cole Porter, and recalled that as a young college student and would-be artist, he had aspired to the life Gene Kelly depicted in the film, An American in Paris. To learn more about this year's event: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=18 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 Upcoming Events 
2005-2006 Seminar Season Begins Schedules for all three 2005-2006 seminar series have been posted. Please refer to the online events calendar for more information. 27 September 2005 Conrad E. Wright, Lecture and booksigning Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence 28 September 2005 Special Event Reception and Exhibit celebrating Dutch-American Friendship 11 October 2005 Annual Meeting Presentation of the Kennedy Medal, Recipient: John Hope Franklin To learn more about these and other events at the MHS: http://www.masshist.org/events/ 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. |