Upcoming 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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Join us for a presentation with Chief Historian and Stephen T. Riley Librarian Peter Drummey to learn more about this unique library and the voracious reader behind its existence. Questions and…

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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…

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

During the tumultuous first decades of the twentieth century tens of thousands of…

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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 a hybrid event hosted at the Concord Museum. There will be an in-person reception after the ceremony.

Join us at the Concord Museum for the ceremony of the…

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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 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…

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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…

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On Thursday, April 13, the MHS welcomes Young Patron Members to join us for a fun-filled evening. Enjoy an assortment of libations and nibbles inspired by the MHS collections in the historic Dowse…

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The MHS is closed Monday, 17 April.

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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 program is located at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library. FREE and open to the public.

Register to attend…

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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…

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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 a hybrid event. FREE. 

Register…

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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…

Past Events

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This is an in-person event with a reception to follow.

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The MHS library and galleries are closed Saturday, 18 March for a special event.

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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…

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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 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 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…

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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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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…

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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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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…

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This is a online event. 

Between 1870 and 1960, at least 120 women served as judges in the United States. At the time of their service, these pathbreakers attracted…

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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

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The MHS is closed Monday, 20 February.

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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…

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Learn more about the courtship correspondence of Abigail Smith and John Adams and view a selection of letters on display.

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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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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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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…