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
Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar

Murder at the Manhattan Well: The Personal and the Political in the Election of 1800

19Nov 5:15PM 2019

In 1800, journeyman carpenter, Levi Weeks, was accused of murdering Guliema Sands, a young woman living in the same boarding house. Using the trial transcript, this paper ...
Conversation; Housing as History

Housing as History: New Directions for Boston’s Subsidized Housing: Learning from the Past

20Nov 6:00PM 2019
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.

As neighborhoods across Boston face enormous development pressure, there is a risk that low-income residents will be forced out of the city. Social disruption due to ...
African American History Seminar

Mary Church Terrell’s Intersectional Black Feminism

21Nov 5:15PM 2019

Civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) highlighted the intersections of race and sex in black women’s lives. This paper focuses on Terrell’s ...
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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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Francis Blake, self-portrait at Payson Farm, Peoria County, Illinois