Upcoming Events
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
This is a hybrid event. FREE.
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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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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…
Learn more about the courtship correspondence of Abigail Smith and John Adams and view a selection of letters on display.
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 …
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 …
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…