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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 …

Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston
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The MHS library is closed Monday, 9 October. The galleries are open.

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

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

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…

A signed copy of the book is included with the registration fee of $45.
In this special…

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…

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…

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

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…