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Guide to Online Features
As part of its mission to communicate and share its collections, the Massachusetts Historical Society makes selected manuscripts and
artifacts available for online viewing. Use this guide to begin exploring our digital collections, online curriculum, and web exhibitions.
Massachusetts Maps
This website presents 104 unique and rare manuscript and printed maps of
Massachusetts from the collections of the Massachuetts Historical
Society. The maps presented include twenty-four manuscript maps of
local towns and counties dating from 1637-1809 and eight iconic printed
maps of Massachusetts and Boston. Seventy-two meticulously drawn
manuscript maps by Samuel Chester Clough (1873-1949) present a wealth of
information about property owners in Boston during the 17th and late
18th centuries. View Online
Digital Editions of the Papers of the Adamses
In one, easily accessible resource you will find the content of the previously printed editions of the Revolutionary-era Adams Papers and, forthcoming, the Winthrop Papers, two long-standing documentary editions prepared at the Massachusetts Historical Society. This digital edition includes all text of the historical documents, all editorial text, and a single index with consolidated entries for the 16 printed Adams Papers indexes.
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The Coming of the American Revolution
In the years between 1764 and 1776, America truly became a nation. Where before America had been a cluster of competing British colonies?with differing origins, goals, and policies?by 1776 colonists had forged a separate identity flexible enough to support not just revolution but nation building. By investigating the lives and events recorded in newspapers, official documents and personal correspondence from our collection, you will immerse yourself in the past and discover the fears, friction and turmoil that shaped these tumultuous times.
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Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts
This website presents digital images of 840 visual materials from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society that illustrate the role of Massachusetts in the national debate over slavery. Included are photographs, paintings, sculptures, engravings, artifacts, banners, and broadsides that were central to the debate and the formation of the antislavery movement.
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African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
This website features 117 items from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, including historical manuscripts and early printed works, that offer a window into the lives of African Americans in Massachusetts from the late 17th century through the abolition of slavery under the Massachusetts Constitution in the 1780s.
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"The Decisive Day Is Come": The Battle of Bunker Hill
In 2000, to mark the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Massachusetts Historical Society developed its first web exhibition
-- personal accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and
artifacts, either preserved by the participants or found on the battlefield. View Online
Maps of the French and Indian War
A web exhibition featuring maps, a 30 page atlas, a timeline, and other resources.
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Object of the Month
At the MHS we are best known for our extensive manuscript archives, but the collections also include paintings, photographs,
numismatics and other important historical artifacts. Each month we select an object, photograph, or other artifact to feature online as our
Object of the Month.
Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive
Featuring selections from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts at the Massachusetts Historical Society,
this digital collection includes high resolutions scans of Jefferson's manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence, Farm Book, and Garden Book.
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John Quincy Adams: One President's Adolescence
This online curriculum is a document-based directed study featuring ordinary and extraordinary letters, diary entries, and parental advice
from JQA's early years. The content and curriculum for this exhibit was prepared by Robert Baker, teacher at Needham High School
and 2001 Swensrud Fellow.
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Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive
This searchable digital collection presents images of manuscripts and digital
transcriptions from the Adams Family Papers including correspondence between
John and Abigail Adams, the diary of John Adams, and the autobiography of John Adams.
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The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection
This online curriculum 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 twelve and continued until shortly before his death in
1848.
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Guide to Online Features
