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Massachusetts Historical Society

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The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) is an independent research library and manuscript repository. Its holdings encompass millions of rare and unique documents and artifacts vital to the study of American history, many of them irreplaceable national treasures. A few examples include correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, such as her famous "Remember the ladies"; several imprints of the Declaration of Independence; and Thomas Jefferson's architectural drawings.

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    Massachusetts Historical Society

    1154 Boylston Street
    Boston, MA 02215

    Phone: 617.536.1608   |   Fax: 617.859.0074   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    02/09/12- 06/02/12

    A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885 A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885 Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society February 9-June 2, 2012 In May 1883, Clover Adams, a descendant of Boston’s Sturgis and Hooper families and the wife of the historian Henry Adams, picked up her camera and began taking photographs—of her husband, of afternoons at the beach on Boston’s North Shore, and of eminent friends who frequented the Adamses’ home on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. Examples of these photographs will be on exhibit 9 February through 2 June at the MHS. Based on Natalie Dykstra’s book, Clover...

  • Upcoming Events

    06/05/12

    The Fenway Victory Gardens: Finding History Inside and Out Massachusetts Historical Society The Fenway Victory Gardens: Finding History Inside and Out Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society June 5, 2012 View items from the Fenway Garden Society's collections, which are preserved at the Massachusetts Historical Society, and then take a tour of the nearby Victory Gardens.

    06/28/12

    Third Annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture Massachusetts Historical Society Third Annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society June 28, 2012 Hugh Howard, author of "Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture," will discuss Fiske Kimball, the pioneering writer, scholar, and museum director who recovered Thomas Jefferson’s architectural genius from historical memory. View a selection of Jefferson's drawings from the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and learn more about the Society's Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts.

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  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    02/09/12- 06/02/12

    A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885 A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885 Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society February 9-June 2, 2012 In May 1883, Clover Adams, a descendant of Boston’s Sturgis and Hooper families and the wife of the historian Henry Adams, picked up her camera and began taking photographs—of her husband, of afternoons at the beach on Boston’s North Shore, and of eminent friends who frequented the Adamses’ home on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. Examples of these photographs will be on exhibit 9 February through 2 June at the MHS. Based on Natalie Dykstra’s book, Clover...

  • Upcoming Events

    06/05/12

    The Fenway Victory Gardens: Finding History Inside and Out Massachusetts Historical Society The Fenway Victory Gardens: Finding History Inside and Out Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society June 5, 2012 View items from the Fenway Garden Society's collections, which are preserved at the Massachusetts Historical Society, and then take a tour of the nearby Victory Gardens.

    06/28/12

    Third Annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture Massachusetts Historical Society Third Annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society June 28, 2012 Hugh Howard, author of "Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture," will discuss Fiske Kimball, the pioneering writer, scholar, and museum director who recovered Thomas Jefferson’s architectural genius from historical memory. View a selection of Jefferson's drawings from the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and learn more about the Society's Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts.

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    05/23/12	We Worked: A Celebration of America’s Workers and the Nation They Built Massachusetts Historical Society
    04/23/12	Democracies of Glee: Boston's First Professional Theatres, 1794-1798 Massachusetts Historical Society
    04/20/12	Framingham's Civil War Hero: The Life of General George H. Gordon. Massachusetts Historical Society
    03/20/12	The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike Massachusetts Historical Society
    03/16/12	The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation of the Revolutionary War Massachusetts Historical Society
    02/29/12	New Israel / New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America Massachusetts Historical Society
    02/23/12	Faith Healing, Vaccination, and the First Amendment Massachusetts Historical Society
    02/17/12- 02/02/12	Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill and the Birth of American Liberty Massachusetts Historical Society
    10/07/11- 01/13/12	The Purchase by Blood: Massachusetts in the Civil War, 1861-1862 Massachusetts Historical Society
    04/07/11	Conference Keynote Address: U.S. Refugee Policy in the Post-Cold War Era Massachusetts Historical Society
    03/19/11	Massachusetts Historical Society Open House: The Coming of the Civil War Massachusetts Historical Society
    03/11/11- 06/30/11	History Drawn with Light: Early Photographs from the Collections of the Mass. Historical Society Massachusetts Historical Society
    03/22/10- 06/30/10	"A More Interior Revolution": Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, and the Women of the American Renaissance Massachusetts Historical Society

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