Event Committee

Julia Pfannenstiehl, Co-Chair
Mary Beth Sandman, Co-Chair

Oliver F. Ames
Levin H. Campbell, Jr.
Herbert P. Dane
Joan Fink
Anne McNay
George Marshall Moriarty
Lisa B. Nurme
Robert G. Ripley, Jr.
Michael Shea
R. Newcomb Stillwell

John Moffitt, Founding Chair
Paul Sandman, Chair, Board of Trustees
Catherine Allgor, President 

Upcoming Events
Author Talk; Online Event

Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America

5Jun 2:00PM 2020
This is an online program

REGISTER HERE After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of modernization. Originating ...
Author Talk; Online Event

Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading

11Jun 5:30PM 2020
This is an online program

REGISTER HERE The publishing phenomenon of summer reading started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. ...
Conversation; Online Event

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

17Jun 5:30PM 2020
This is an online program.

REGISTER HERE Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of the Civil War in the American West.Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and ...
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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 ...

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Document by Samuel Stillman certifying that Hartford Turner and Dinah ...