Digital MHS

Browse through the MHS’s online offerings including collection highlights, in-depth collection guides, and everything Adams. Find out about our recent activity in our blog, the Beehive, and get a behind-the-scenes experience of our collections with our podcast, The Object of History.

Collection Highlights

Explore sets of digitized items organized around a common topic or a specific collection.

Digital Collections

Use a number of powerful tools to find everything we have online.

Primary Source Cooperative

Read verified transcriptions of primary sources at this platform for publishing archival manuscript records. The Coop is a collaboration of four founding editions: the John Quincy Adams Digital Diary, the Papers of Roger Brooke Taney, the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters, and the Ellen Swallow Richards Papers.

Podcasts

Our two podcasts, The Object of History and Historians & Their Histories, take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of the MHS collections and introduce you to the historians who write the histories.

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