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Upcoming Events

Author Talk

Animal City: The Domestication of America

27Jan 6:00PM 2020

There is a pre-talk reception at 5:30.

American cities were once full of animal life: cattle driven through city streets; pigs feeding on trash in public alleys and basements; cows crammed into urban feedlots; ...

Modern American Society and Culture Seminar

Genetown: The Urbanization of the Boston Area Biotechnology Industry

28Jan 5:15PM 2020

Today, the Boston area hosts the densest cluster of biotechnology firms anywhere in the world. Yet in the 1980s, the rapid concentration of the industry within ...

Conversation

Historical Perspectives on Today’s World: Our Nation's Founders and Today's Political Challenges

30Jan 6:00PM 2020

This program will be held at the Edward M. ...

Our Founding Fathers were progressive for their time in establishing a new nation. Many of them grappled with the same issues that we face today, including political ...

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From our Blog

This Week @MHS

Join us for a program this week! Here is a look at what is going on: - Tuesday, 29 January, 5:15 PM: Better Teaching through Technology, 1945-1969, with Victoria Cain, Northeastern ...

Founder to Founder

Like so many good stories here at the Historical Society, it began with a reference question. Jeremy Belknap, hunting through his sources, asked Vice President John Adams for some help. Belknap, the ...

Have you seen?

Map of the Town of Boston 1648; Drawn by Samuel C. Clough, in ...