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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Join Johnathan Williams as we discuss 1998’s A Civil Action, starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall, James…

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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Calling all graduate students and faculty! Please join us at our thirteenth annual Graduate Student Reception for students in history, American Studies, and related fields. This year we invite you to join a virtual gathering to learn about the resources the MHS…

The politics of the United States and its regions are founded on their political cultures. Since the nation’s founding, regional, ideological, economic, ethnic and racial issues have shaped the many political cultures ruling American society. This …

The politics of the United States and its regions are founded on their political cultures. Since the nation’s founding, regional, ideological, economic, ethnic and racial issues have shaped the many political cultures ruling American society. This …

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 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. 

Nothing had quite the carbon impact of the Barbados sugar boom. Within a half century of the colony’s transition to sugar production in 1643, Barbados…

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…

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…

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. 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 an online event.

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…