William Lloyd Garrison was one of Boston's most radical white abolitionists and publisher of the Liberator, arguably the most famous and long-lasting abolitionist newspapers in the country. From Ann Marie Reardon's Essay "The Peculiar Kidnapping Case of Elizabeth Bright," Collections of the MHS, Portraits of American Abolitionists, photo #81.271.


Billboard from the successful 1964 Massachusetts lieutenant governor's race. One of Richardson's mentors sponsored ht ad, identified in the lower right corner as "Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, Smith St., Dover, Mass." Richardson always considered himself a politician. Two years later he successfully ran for state attorney general. From Thomas J. Vance's essay "The Mentors of Elliot Richardson," Collections of the MHs, Leverett Saltonstall photographs.


Brook Farm with Rainbow (1845) by Josiah Wolcott (1815?-1885). Oil on canvas. Collections of the MHS. The Utopian community at Brook Farm arose from the ideals of nineteenth-century American transcendentalists. From Megan Marshall's essay "Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: The First Transcendentalist?".