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This pamphlet contains a narrative and 31 testimonies describing the infamous Boston Massacre with an eye toward exonerating the soldiers involved in the incident and promoting the loyalist cause. Read more.
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The transcontinental railroads reshaped the United States—its politics, economy, culture and environment. But as this talk argues, late-nineteenth-century Americans ...
Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts and he shows us what the past can tell ...
Join us for a live virtual Q and A with Professor Robert Allison who will address your questions on the Revolutionary War in Boston and beyond. Subscribers will get ...
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The Adams Family Papers consist of the writings of two presidents—John Adams and John Quincy Adams—and their families. View documents and transcriptions, biographies, a timeline, and more.
The Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, containing almost 9,000 pages of correspondence, personal manuscript volumes, and more than 400 architectural drawings, is the largest gathering of the personal papers of our third president.
Comprised of manuscripts, photographs, books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, graphics, newspapers, works of art, and artifacts, MHS collections are unparalleled in their importance for the study of American history.
by Susan Martin, Processing Archivist & EAD Coordinator A few years ago, I posted to the Beehive about Noah Worcester of the Massachusetts Peace Society and his objections to the way ...
by Daniel Hinchen, Reference Librarian Did you ever wonder where the name for this blog came from? The Beehive does seem an odd name for a platform that is spreading news of an institution like the ...
by Patrick T.J. Browne, Mellon Short-term Research Fellow, Boston University In the summer of 1865 as soldiers returned home, the United States Sanitary Commission gradually terminated most of its ...
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