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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.
In 1972, a group of African American parents sued city and state officials over segregation within the Boston Public Schools. After a trial, a federal court determined ...
The domestic realm has long captivated feminist scholars who have sought to understand the lives of women and the workings of gender. How have women experienced, ...
The chain of green spaces and waterways that comprise the Emerald Necklace park system is an invaluable urban oasis. Described as “the lungs of the city” this ...
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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 Gavin Kleespies, Director of Programs, Exhibitions & Community Partnerships At a recent meeting, a MHS staff member pointed out that it had been 400 days since we closed our doors to the ...
By Susan Martin, Senior Processing Archivist This is the third installment in a series on the diary of William Logan Rodman at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Click here to read ...
By Heather Rockwood, Communications Associate Today is #NationalSiblingsDay! To celebrate, I took a look into the collections of the MHS to see if there are any historically significant siblings. ...
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