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
Brown Bag

Staged Readings: Parlor Play and Contesting Class in Nineteenth-Century America

13Nov 12:00PM 2019

This talk focuses on the curious practice of nineteenth-century parlor theatricals in the United States. In the postbellum years, the country’s evolving middle ...
Conversation; Housing as History

Housing as History: the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Orchard Gardens

13Nov 6:00PM 2019
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.

By the 1980s the Dudley Square neighborhood of Roxbury was facing significant challenges. Absentee landlords had allowed property to deteriorate, left units vacant, or ...
Conversation

Atlas of Boston History

14Nov 6:00PM 2019
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston’s. The Atlas of Boston History traces the history of Boston from late prehistoric ...
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