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MHS E-mail Newsletter March/April 2006 Welcome! Welcome to the March/April 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.  
Dennis Fiori Welcomed as New MHS DirectorMore than 120 members and friends of Society, including friends and former colleagues of Mr. Fiori from his previous career as director of the Concord Museum in Concord, Mass., attended a festive event to welcome Dennis Fiori as the sixth director of the MHS. Click here for more information: http://www.masshist.org/about/news.cfm?newsitem=24 
The Diaries of John Quincy AdamsThis website presents images of the 51 volumes of John Quincy Adams' diary in the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Adams began keeping his diary, more than 14,000 pages, in 1779 at the age of 12 and continued until shortly before his death in 1848. Click here to explore the diaries: http://www.masshist.org/jqadiaries/ Environmental History Conference 
On May 4-6, the Society will host Remaking Boston: The City and Environmental Change Over the Centuries.More than a dozen scholars will present essays, circulated in advance, on aspects of how nature and human society have interacted in Boston since the 18th century. The conference will also include a keynote address by Professor Brian Donahue of Brandeis University, Thursday, 4 May, 5:30 PM. The address, funded by the Lowell Institute, is open to all without charge. Click here for more information: http://www.masshist.org/events/conferences.cfm 
Object of the Month Telegram from Dean Rusk to Leverett Saltonstall, 24 September 1963. Click here to see the Object of the Month: http://www.masshist.org/objects/ Coming in April: The Massachusetts Pine Tree Penny Upcoming Events 
30 March 2006 Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar Susan Eckstein, Boston University "On Deconstructing and Historicizing Immigrant Generations: Cohorts and the Cuban Émigré Experience" 6 April 2006 Boston Early American History Seminar Mary Bilder, Boston College "English Settlement and Local Governance" Comment: Cynthia Van Zandt, University of New Hampshire 11 April 2006 Boston Environmental History Seminar Jim Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology "Recent Findings on Characteristics of Nineteenth-Century Fill in the Back Bay and the Fenway" Comment: Jack Duggan, Wentworth Institute of Technology 27 April 2006 Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar Keren R. McGinity, Brown University "Winning at 'Assimilation?': How Feminism Changed the Meaning of Intermarriage for Jews" Comment: Joyce Antler, Brandeis University Click here for more information: http://www.masshist.org/events/index.cfm?seminarview=true
MHS Now Offers WiFi MHS now offers free wireless internet access in public areas of the building. See a librarian for more information and access instructions. 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. |