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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.
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
