Events
The MHS offers an engaging roster of programming to foster historical knowledge and we welcome everyone to attend, question, and contribute. We provide a forum for debate; host a variety of events that delve into the complexities of history; and encourage people to share their observations, interpretations, and ideas.
We are pleased to participate in the Card to Culture program, a collaboration between Mass Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, Massachusetts Health Connector, and Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program by extending discounts to EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders. Cardholders are eligible for free or discounted entry at our public program events, including both virtual and in-person programs. There are no restrictions on the number of times an individual can present a card for admission and no restrictions on the number of tickets held per event (except for fundraising and cultivation events). See the full list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.
Upcoming Events
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Thu, February 02, 2023, -
This is an online event.
What’s a biographer to do when a subject goes rogue? Turns unlikable or unreliable? Or just plain disappoints an admiring writer? Join three biographers who have taken this journey with their subjects and come out…
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Mon, February 06, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Tue, February 07, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
The traditional narrative of corporate personhood begins in the Gilded Age, as railroad corporations permeated federal courts to challenge state regulations, leading us…
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Wed, February 08, 2023, -
Note on accessibility: All online programs in this series are in English and have ASL interpreters and live captioning. If you have questions about accessibility, please contact programs@…
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Mon, February 13, 2023, -
Note on accessibility: All online programs in this series are in English and have ASL interpreters and live captioning. If you have questions about accessibility, please contact …
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Tue, February 14, 2023, -
Learn more about the courtship correspondence of Abigail Smith and John Adams and view a selection of letters on display.
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Thu, February 16, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
In the early modern centuries, natural variabilities in Earth’s climate disrupted the seasonal rhythms that governed landscapes and…
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Mon, February 20, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Monday, 20 February.
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Mon, February 20, 2023, -
This virtual workshop is open to all K-12 educators and will be held in three part-day sessions over the Massachusetts February school break:
Monday, 20 February, 9:00-11:30 AM
Wednesday, 22 February, 9:00-11:30 AM
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Tue, February 21, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
Between 1870 and 1960, at least 120 women served as judges in the United States. At the time of their service, these pathbreakers attracted significant attention because…
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Thu, February 23, 2023, -
This is an online event.
Mapping the Gay Guides (MGG) relies on the Damron Guides, an early but longstanding travel guide aimed at gay men since the early 1960s. An LGBTQ equivalent to the African American “green books,” the Damron…
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Tue, February 28, 2023, -
Note on accessibility: All online programs in this series are in English and have ASL interpreters and live captioning. If you have questions about accessibility, please contact …
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Thu, March 02, 2023, -
This is an online event.
This paper explores the careers of Lola Belle Holmes and Julia Brown, African Americans who spied for the FBI within the U.S. Communist Party in the 1940s-50s. In the 1960s, Brown and Holmes became speakers for the…
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Mon, March 06, 2023, -
Note on accessibility: All online programs in this series are in English and have ASL interpreters and live captioning. If you have questions about accessibility, please contact …
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Tue, March 07, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
This paper will present a developmental perspective on religious culture as a whole in the British Colonies and the Revolutionary nation from the eve of the Great…
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Mon, March 13, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Wed, March 15, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Thu, March 16, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
New York and Pennsylvania before the American Revolution were some of the most ethnically and religiously diverse colonies in North America, and baptismal witnessing…
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Sat, March 18, 2023, -
The MHS library is closed Saturday, 18 March.
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Sat, March 18, 2023, -
This is an in-person event with a reception to follow.
Clover is a full-length play by Laura Rocklyn and Ty Hallmark exploring the life of Clover Adams, wife of Henry Adams and pioneer female photographer. Upon arriving in Gilded…
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Wed, March 22, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Thu, March 23, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
This paper discusses how Black families converted upper Roxbury’s single-family housing stock into multi-family homes in the postwar era—a process of "filtering down"…
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Mon, March 27, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Tue, March 28, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
In the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century, the Great Plains were at the heart of the U.S. population boom. As Indigenous reservations…
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Wed, March 29, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Mon, April 03, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Tue, April 04, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
This paper argues that the Declaration of Independence was not antimonarchist in principle. The document’s conclusion’s “circumstances of our migration and settlement…
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Tue, April 11, 2023, -
This is an online event.
Diana W. Anselmo’s work explores the cultural and political reach of “bad feelings” beyond the strictly psychoanalytic. She turns attention to the archives of self-injury underwriting silent-film female fandom to…
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Mon, April 17, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Monday, 17 April.
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Wed, April 19, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.
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Thu, April 20, 2023, -
This program is located at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library. FREE and open to the public.
The Massachusetts Historical Society, the Jamaica…
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Tue, April 25, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 pm.
In American cities throughout the North and South, discriminatory discipline emerged or increased during desegregation, creating a “pushout” phenomenon in which the…
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Wed, April 26, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.…
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Fri, April 28, 2023, -
This is a hybrid event. FREE. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.
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Tue, May 09, 2023, -
This is an online event.
Biographers often have to "fill in the blanks" of their subjects' lives. Telling the stories of women is sometimes even more complicated because historically, many women's papers were not thought to have value and…
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Sat, May 27, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Saturday, 27 May.
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Mon, May 29, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Monday, 29 May.
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Mon, June 19, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Monday, 19 June.
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Mon, July 03, 2023, -
The MHS is closed 3 July and 4 July.
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Tue, July 04, 2023, -
The MHS is closed 3 July and 4 July.
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Sat, September 02, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Saturday, 2 September and Monday, 4 September.
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Mon, September 04, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Saturday, 2 September and Monday, 4 September.
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Mon, October 09, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Monday, 9 October.
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Fri, November 10, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 10 November.
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Thu, November 23, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Thursday, 23 November through Saturday, 25 November.
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Fri, November 24, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Thursday, 23 November through Saturday, 25 November.
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Sat, November 25, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Thursday, 23 November through Saturday, 25 November.
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Fri, December 22, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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Sat, December 23, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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Mon, December 25, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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Tue, December 26, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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Wed, December 27, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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Thu, December 28, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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Fri, December 29, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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Sat, December 30, 2023, -
The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.
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The MHS hosts events throughout the year to thank our various donor groups. Members receive special invitations to exclusive events.
The MHS keeps abreast of emerging trends in American history. Throughout the year, we host authors to speak on a variety of topics related to American and Massachusetts history. (Past event recordings available.)
The MHS offers a range of programs including lectures, panel discussions, gallery tours, and special events led by notable speakers, public figures, and scholars.
The MHS organizes seven seminar series that bring together a diverse group of scholars and members of the public to workshop a pre-circulated academic paper.
The MHS offers more than two dozen brown-bag lunch programs each year. These programs are free of charge and open to all.
The MHS develops and implements educator workshops on a variety of American history topics.