Archives
April 2013
"We searched its gaunt face for the mysteries of our destiny ...": Estelle Ishigo’s Scenes of a Japanese Internment Camp
Watercolor, 1943
March 2013
Washington Mazurkerwitz and Veronica Ryewhiskey: Recollections of the Polish Community in Salem
Letter (retained copy), 1930
January 2013
"Let all your voices, like merry bells, join loud and clear in the grand chorus of liberty:" Emancipation Proclaimed on New Year's Day 1863
Broadside, 1863
December 2012
Theodore Roosevelt Comes to Lunch—and the Massachusetts Historical Society Turns Itself Upside Down
Program, 1912
November 2012
"Under the Commission of Massachusetts We Shall March Forward to the Mountain Plains of the Aztecs:" Recruiting Volunteers for the First Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment during the Mexican War
Broadside, 1846
July 2012
"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America"
Letter, 1776
February 2012
A photographic portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., by Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams
Photograph, 1884
January 2012
Souvenir of a "Splendid Exhibition": Cupid as Drawn by Maelzel's Automaton, the Juvenile Artist
Drawing by automaton machine, 1835
September 2011
"There is nothing like having a good repository": Jeremy Belknap Describes the Mission of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1795
Letter, 1795
August 2011
"We are going out to make calls": Life of a Victorian Girl
Crayon and pencil drawing, circa 1876-1800
June 2011
Crossed Swords: Prescott and Linzee Swords from the Battle of Bunker Hill
Plaque with two swords, circa 1730s-1750s and circa 1780s
May 2011
A Record of Thomas Jefferson's Garden
Manuscript, 1771 (featured page), 1770-1824 (whole volume)
February 2011
"Propaganda destructive to the home and church": The Massachusetts Public Interests League and the Battle against "Radicalism"
Letter, 1923
January 2011
Celebrating Charles Sumner: Abolitionist, Orator, Reformer, and Statesman
Portrait, 1887
November 2010
"The Usual Consequence of Martial Law": William Cheever's Diary during the Siege of Boston
Manuscript diary, May 1775 - March 1776
October 2010
Historical Editing in Wartime: The Extraordinary Military Career of Samuel Miller Quincy
Watercolor drawing, circa 1865
September 2010
"Only the Beginning of Difficulties": The Trial and Rendition of Anthony Burns
Letter, 1854
July 2010
"A rash and dreadful act for a woman": The 1915 Woman Suffrage Parade in Boston
Broadside, 1862
March 2010
"All this may be very 'unlovely,' but it is I": A Margaret Fuller Letter as Edited by Her Friends
Letter, 1836
February 2010
"I wish the British would stop this 'We who are about to die, salute thee' attitude": Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Roger Merriman
Letter, 1939
January 2010
The Birth Announcement of the Massachusetts Historical Society: The 1791 Circular Letter, of Historical Society
Printed pamphlet, 1791
November 2009
High Adventure: James Norman Hall's Final Combat during the First World War
Photograph, 1918
October 2009
A Daughter of the Revolution: Rachel Walker Revere Writes to Her Husband, Paul Revere, in the Aftermath of His Famous Ride
Letter, 1775
September 2009
A Commission in John Brown's Provisional Army
Printed form completed in manuscript, 1859
May 2009
"This I cannot but regard as perhaps most the important corps to be organized during the whole war..."
Manuscript letter, 1863