ColorOurCollections

As part an active and enthusiastic Twitter presence, the MHS is pleased to participate in #ColorOurCollections week (1–5 February 2016), in which cultural organizations share images for crafty Twitter users to print, color, photograph, and tweet under the titular hashtag.

Download the Society's PDF coloring book below to participate.

ColorOurCollections 1–5 February 2016

Upcoming Events
Author Talk; Online Event

Virtual Book Talk: When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War

10Apr 2:00PM 2020
This is an online event

In 1862, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison summarized the Civil War: “There is a war because there was a Republican Party. There was a Republican Party because ...
Online Event

The Boston Red Sox with Gordon Edes

17Apr 2:00PM 2020
This is an online event

Join Red Sox historian Gordon Edes in a virtual Q and A where he will take your questions on one of baseball's most legendary and celebrated franchises. Subscribers will ...
postponed Teacher Workshop

Legislating the Environment: Teaching Environmental History and Civics

21Apr 9:30AM 2020
Registration Fee: $25

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER 7, 2020 In partnership with the Tsongas Industrial History Center, we will explore the intersections of environmental history, ...
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From our Blog

This Week @MHS

Join us for a program this week! Here is a look at what is going on: - Tuesday, 29 January, 5:15 PM: Better Teaching through Technology, 1945-1969, with Victoria Cain, Northeastern ...

Founder to Founder

Like so many good stories here at the Historical Society, it began with a reference question. Jeremy Belknap, hunting through his sources, asked Vice President John Adams for some help. Belknap, the ...

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Boy on a pony at the Caledonia estate at Soledad, Cuba