Fashioning the New England Family

Behind-the-Scenes Videos

Guest Curator Kimberly Alexander discusses the green silk wedding dress and matching shoes worn by Rebecca Tailer [Byles]

Rebecca Tailer [Byles] wedding dress fit on a mannequin by MHS Curator of Art and Artifacts Anne Bentley and Astrida Schaeffer of Schaeffer Arts Costume Exhibition & Care

Gov. John Leverett's circa 1640 buff coat

This video clip shows the initial reveal of one of our dress mannequin's petticoats by Astrida Schaeffer of Schaeffer Arts Costume Exhibition & Care

Upcoming Events

Brown Bag

“Watering of the Olive Plant”: Catechisms and Catechizing in Early New England

17Oct 12:00PM 2018

Early New Englanders produced and used an unusually large number of catechisms. These catechisms shaped relations of faith for church membership, provided content for ...

Author Talk

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

17Oct 6:00PM 2018

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.

Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the ...

African American History Seminar

Losing Laroche: The Story of the Titanic’s Only Black Passenger

18Oct 5:15PM 2018

Losing Laroche is the first in-depth study of the only black family on board the RMS Titanic. The story of the Haitian Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche and his ...

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From our Blog

This Week @MHS

This week we have a pair of Brown Bag talks, two evening programs, the first seminar in a new series, and a sold out tour. Details below: - Monday, 15 October, 12:00 PM: Examining Land ...

New Transcriptions Released for John Quincy Adams' Diary

Amid his daily whirl of diplomatic duties, John Quincy Adams paused to reflect on his latest dispatch to President James Monroe. After several rewrites, Adams had drafted a course of action that would ...

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Tennis player, possibly Edward L. Hall, in motion