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Connecting a selection of compelling, captivating, and amusing items from our collection to the backgrounds, interests, and memories of the MHS staff. View now
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The story behind the beloved photograph of Benjamin Blake mid-jump. Read more.
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The Adams Family Papers consist of the writings of two presidents—John Adams and John Quincy Adams—and their families. View documents and transcriptions, biographies, a timeline, and more.
The Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, containing almost 9,000 pages of correspondence, personal manuscript volumes, and more than 400 architectural drawings, is the largest gathering of the personal papers of our third president.
Comprised of manuscripts, photographs, books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, graphics, newspapers, works of art, and artifacts, MHS collections are unparalleled in their importance for the study of American history.
by Susan Martin, Senior Processing Archivist This is the second part of a series. Read Part I here. A few weeks ago, I introduced you to a precocious 13-year-old girl named Henrietta ...
by Gwen Fries and Rhonda Barlow, The Adams Papers On 4 October 1815, twelve-year-old John Adams II sat down at a desk outside London to write a letter to his grandfather. The middle child of John ...
by Aaron Peterka, MHS Early Career Scholar Committee & Mentorship Program Member Over the course of 250 years, the grass-covered mounds of Cambridge’s Fort Washington morphed from a ...
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