Events

This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, Algonquin Club Foundation Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The program will begin at 6:00 and an in-person reception will follow beginning at 7:00.

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

This paper examines the attempts of Albert Gallatin, a young immigrant from Geneva, to make a fortune in North America through connections to the French Atlantic. Drawn…

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Join disability history scholars and activists as we discuss 2020’s Crip Camp, featuring Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James LeBrecht, and more. The…

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

Since the 1950s, the United States military and related agencies have used earth’s extreme environments to simulate outer space. This…

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Sit back and relax as we introduce you to our Visionary Circle planned giving program. After a brief presentation, our planned giving experts at Cornerstone Advisors will be on…

This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin after the program. 

The Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has funded several short-term fellows at the MHS. This event…

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

This panel explores how gender, sexuality, and race shaped the experience of two women in the nineteenth century. Alexi Garrett provides a microhistory that follows the…

This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or EBT cardholders. The reception with the speakers begins at 5:00 PM. The general reception starts at 5:30 PM. The program begins at 6:00 PM.…

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

When the first U.S. diplomat to Iran, S. G. W. Benjamin, returned to the United States in 1885, he urged Americans to study Persian art. Through lectures and…

This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or EBT cardholders. The reception with the speakers begins at 5:00 PM. The general reception starts at 5:30 PM. The program begins at 6:00 PM.

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Join colleagues from across the region for a one-day, in-person educator workshop exploring the historical impact of Black abolitionists in New Bedford, a whaling community that was a critical stop on the maritime Underground Railroad. In addition to prominent…

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In 1851, Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright invented “Drapetomania” to describe the "psychological disorder" that caused a phenomenon of enslaved Blacks to run away from bondage before the Civil War. He spent enormous…

This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 1:30 and the program will begin at 2:00.

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This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or EBT cardholders. The reception with the speakers begins at 5:00 PM. The general reception starts at 5:30 PM. The program begins at 6:00 PM.…

This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, Colonial Dames Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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In the years after World War II, sponsored “economic education” media—industrial publicity programs that linked democracy and civil liberties to the ideal of private enterprise—flourished in the United States through…

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Join historian Larry Tye as we discuss 2005’s Good Night and Good Luck, featuring David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels…

This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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This panel discusses the cultural and racial identities of Indigenous people during King Philip’s War (1675-76). Ruth Herndon’s paper studies a group of 32 Indigenous children, raised as “praying Indians”, who were…

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In this program, Boston University…

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Join MHS and professionals involved with the making of the film, as we discuss 1997’s Good Will Hunting, featuring Robin Williams, Matt…

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

Throughout early modern Europe and the Atlantic World, individuals recorded details of earthquakes in diaries and letters,…

This is a hybrid event. In person, $10 per person fee, no charge for MHS Members, EBT Cardholders, or virtual guests. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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

Some people marry for love, others marry to avoid prison. This paper explores the latter. There is a long history of men and women marrying to evade criminal prosecution…