Can you read cursive? Sign up to become a digital volunteer for MHS and help us transcribe diary pages—your choice—either entries from the 1770s or 1860s. Volunteer to transcribe documents for the MHS at www.masshist.org/mymhs.
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"Two Favorite Songs" – one of a series of broadsides rejoicing in the retreat of the British troops from Boston. Image courtesy of @mhs1791 archives.
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🍰Happy birthday, @mhs1791.bsky.social! From the #Beehive #archives: I wrote about how John Adams answered reference questions for #MHS1791 founder Jeremy Belknap...🗃️ www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/...
If you weren’t able to attend Family Romance: John Singer Sargent & the Wertheimers with Jean Strouse, biographer, in conversation with Natalie Dykstra, Hope College, the video is now online. View it here: youtu.be/u-uSv9ff7Us?...
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If you weren’t able to attend the William Hickling Prescott Award Ceremony & Conversation with Stacy Schiff, in conversation with Megan Marshall, Emerson College, the video is now online. View it here: youtu.be/uF3n1o3cMDI?...
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See the original here: www.masshist.org/database/788
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Black and white photograph of a three-story building with stone making up the majority of the masonry. The first floor has an entrance in the middles surrounded by Doric columns with two bump outs on either corner going to the top of the building. There are 5 windows across each floor except the first because of the entryway, and a balconette on the third-floor middle window.
Season 4 Episode 1 of our podcast The Object of History, is now available! We're going behind the scenes of our Boylston Street headquarters for some house history.
Catch up on past seasons or catch the latest episode here: www.masshist.org/podcast/seas...
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Pssst #MHS1791, what’s that historical-looking street scene photo in your profile pic? 🧐🗃️
Season 4 of our podcast The Object of History, premiers on 12/15! We're going behind the scenes of our headquarters, then taking our show on the road to connect our collections with Boston's most beloved (and mysterious!) landmarks.
Catch up on past seasons here: www.masshist.org/podcast
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Color graphic book cover excerpt. The Background is a white map with undertones of greens and yellows. In the center is an oval, in that oval is a painting of an old Black woman with white hair peeking out from under her white cap that goes under her chin. She also wears a white shawl, blue dress, and gold bead necklace.
Join the MHS tonight, 4 December 2024, online only, at 6:00 PM ET, for A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman & the Abolition of Slavery in the North, with Donna Tesiero. Register here: www.masshist.org/events/revol...
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Hello Bluesky! The MHS is the oldest historical society in the US founded in 1791! Follow along to learn more about our vast collections and archives, as well as our array of programs.
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(Technically Caroline Healey Dall’s 🐈⬛, 19thc carte-de-visite, but we both live at #MHS1791 soooo 😊)
