The MHS is closed on Saturdays through September.

Upcoming Events

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This is an online event.

Venture Smith was born in West Africa, sold as a young boy into slavery in New England, and survived to tell his extraordinary story in a

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Massachusetts Historical Society 
1154 Boylston Street, Boston

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The MHS library is closed Monday, 9 October. The galleries are open.

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Register below for either the 11:00 AM or 2:00 PM Walking Tour of the Fenway neighborhood, the MHS building will be open for self-guided tours of the galleries from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM. 

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This is an online event.

El Teatro Campesino created dramatic performances engaging their fellow farmworkers in fields and orchards, on picket lines and…

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…

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This is an online event. 

This essay examines how U.S. soldiers, believing that the U.S. government violated its promise of rapid demobilization, rose up to protest the…

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

Roy’s paper introduces his forthcoming book American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of…

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A signed copy of the book is included with the registration fee of $45. 

Register to attend online

In this special…

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

In this paper, Dan Joslyn argues that in the 1830s, Garrisonian abolitionists and Finneyite…

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

Back in 2020 at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, when communal spaces and community itself…

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…

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This is an online event. 

Southern secession was a disaster for American nationalists with a proslavery vision of the Union’s past and future. Few were as virulent as John…

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Fee Structure: $25

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On the night…

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This is a virtual event.

Registration link coming soon.

Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? Katlyn Carter’s book reveals that modern democracy…

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

Creating data models that can take advantage of the affordances of the web of data is a…

Past Events

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…

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This is an in-person event. FREE.

Register to attend in person

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…

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Calling all graduate students and faculty! Please join us at our fourteenth annual Graduate Student Reception for students in history, American Studies, and related fields. This year we invite you…

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This is a virtual program.

Register to attend online

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This is an online event.

The project examines the foundation of education in 19th century Liberia by distinctly American entities. Philanthropists, missionaries, and…

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…

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The MHS is closed Monday, 4 September.

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The MHS is closed Saturday, 2 September.

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Free to attend. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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The MHS is closed on Saturday, 29 July.

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Free. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:30.

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The MHS is closed on July 22.

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…

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The MHS is closed on July 15.

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…

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The MHS is closed on July 8.

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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 Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person…