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Massachusetts played a crucial role in the American Revolution, and most students are familiar with its key players: John and Abigail Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, ...
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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 Kate Melchior, Assistant Director of Education Gov. Charlie Baker approved the FY22 Massachusetts state budget recently. We are thrilled to share the news that $25K is included in the ...
By Matthew Ahern, Library Assistant Jennison v. Caldwell (1783) is one of the most significant court cases in Massachusetts’s history, and a landmark moment in the early abolitionist ...
by Rhonda Barlow, Adams Papers Research Associate John Adams famously described the vice presidency as “the most insignificant Office” ever devised. Less well known is why he said this or that ...
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