Events

MHS Members and Honorary Fellows are cordially invited for an evening of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, spotlight talks, and seasonal entertainment. 

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The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

The MHS is closed Friday, 22 December through Monday, 1 January.

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.

This panel examines the role of the environment in the United States during the early twentieth century and its relationship to colonialism. As a…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM. 

This paper looks at prostitution in the semi-private spaces of the tenements of New York in the early 20th century and how prostitutes engaged in and shaped the consumer…

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…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.

This paper explores the deportation of American citizens to the United States during the interwar period and argues the need for a more multi-directional approach to…

This is an online event.

This panel highlights social institutions in eighteenth century New England. Nicole Breault’s research centers on Bostonian watchmen who walked the streets at night to monitor for signs of fire, distress, and…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM. 

For over a century, elite Bostonians attempted to keep “pernicious and dangerous” contraceptive knowledge from poor and working-class citizens. During the Great…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.

Rural entrepreneurs were consumed by the effort to mine, quarry, and transport natural resources such as granite, soapstone, graphite, iron, coal, and…

This is a virtual program.

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While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never…

This teacher workshop is offered for Grade 3-12 school teachers with a focus on Grade 5, and covers content relevant to Grade 5 Investigating History, Early US, 19th Century, and African American History. This is a virtual two-day event, on Monday,…

This is an online event.

Tens of thousands of Black North Americans returned to the United States during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and in the decades that followed—while thousands of others migrated north into Canada in these years.…

This is an online event. 

This paper examines the trafficking of Black refugees into northern homes during the Civil War. Union soldiers wrote frequently to their families about sending them a “contraband,” yet scholars have generally…

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.

In the late 19th century, political cartoonists often pictured the nation at the table, consuming more than just food.  The well-known cartoon, Uncle Sam’s…

This is an online event. 

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, those who had been children during the American Civil War carried on fights over freedom that their parents had begun by deploying their own childhood memories to…