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This online exhibition illustrates how cartoonists helped to tell the story of voting rights in the United States. View.
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Highlighting Thomas Nast’s remarkable impact through a cartoon biography created by local artists. View online now.
If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height ...
For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children. But ...
Please register through the Boston Athenaeum Register Here In Force and Freedom, Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis ...
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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, Senior Processing Archivist Today, 9 June , marks the anniversary of a tragic day in the history of Worcester, Mass. and the surrounding areas. On this day 68 years ago, a ...
By Neal Millikan, Series Editor for Digital Editions, The Adams Papers Transcriptions of more than 500 pages of John Quincy Adams’s diary have just been added to the John Quincy Adams Digital ...
By Heather Rockwood, Communications Associate Known to her friends and family as "Clover," Marian Hooper Adams was born in Boston, 13 September 1843, to Robert W. Hooper, an eye doctor, and Ellen ...
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