A new interview-style podcast that takes you on a behind-the-scenes tour of items in the MHS collections. More
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Connecting a selection of compelling, captivating, and amusing items from our collection to the backgrounds, interests, and memories of the MHS staff. View now
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The legacy of an audacious forger. Read more.
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Our panel will explore how disability functioned in early America from personal, political, and cultural perspectives. What did disability mean in the early United States ...
Historians have recognized the role of Black women educators in schools throughout the south, work associated today with well-known figures like Mary McLeod Bethune, ...
19th-century Massachusetts reformer Dorothea Dix is renowned for her efforts to improve the horrendous treatment of people with mental disabilities in local jails ...
View a selection of our favorite items from the MHS collection.
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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.
Every year, the MHS selects one or more high school students for our John Winthrop Student Fellowship. This award encourages high school students to make use of the nationally ...
By Susan Martin, Senior Processing Archivist A fellow archivist and I often talk about that instinct you develop after working in this field for a few years. I call it the “I think this is a ...
By Rakashi Chand, Senior Library Assistant “We are all individuals, and also parts of the human family, and our best life is found in the way each of these capacities ...
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