Upcoming Events
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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
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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…
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…
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…
Past 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…
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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…
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…
This is a virtual program.
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The project examines the foundation of education in 19th century Liberia by distinctly American entities. Philanthropists, missionaries, 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…
Free to attend. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.
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Free. The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:30.
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. 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…