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This broadside outlining the rules to be followed after receiving a vaccine was probably issued in 1810 in Providence, Rhode Island. The work done by nineteenth century physicians and amateurs was crucial in the battle against smallpox.
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This online exhibition illustrates how cartoonists helped to tell the story of voting rights in the United States. View.
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Highlighting Thomas Nast’s remarkable impact through a cartoon biography created by local artists. View online now.
Collective protest, in addition to being a constitutionally protected right, is a fundamental and enduring part of American life and culture. Protest and agitation ...
This panel discussion brings together the histories of health, disease, and the environment to cast new light on key sites of Colonial American history. Molly ...
When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he had become a bona fide ...
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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 Lauren Duval, NEH-MHS Long-term Research Fellow, Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma This past fall I was delighted to spend time at the Massachusetts Historical Society as a ...
By Sara Martin, Editor in Chief, The Adams Papers On 8 July 1801 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams stepped aboard the ship America in Hamburg. She was ill, worried for the son she birthed ...
By Kate Melchior, Assistant Director of Education Deadline: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 It's time again for National History Day in Massachusetts! Our students and teachers ...
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