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

History of Women and Gender Seminar

Panel: Feminist Economics

19Feb 5:30PM 2019

Location: Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute

These papers begin a conversation on the intersection of the study of the women’s liberation movement with the history of capitalism. Danielle Dumaine’s paper ...

Teacher Workshop

Teaching the Industrial Revolution in Massachusetts

20Feb 9:30AM 2019

Registration fee: $25 per person

Lowell’s water-powered textile mills catapulted the nation – including immigrant families and early female factory workers – into an uncertain new ...

Conversation

Uncivil Society

21Feb 6:00PM 2019

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

American political discourse has become so dysfunctional it is hard to imagine reaching a national consensus on almost anything. Longstanding historical fault lines over ...

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From our Blog

This Week @MHS

Join us for a program this week! Here is a look at what is going on: - Tuesday, 29 January, 5:15 PM: Better Teaching through Technology, 1945-1969, with Victoria Cain, Northeastern ...

Founder to Founder

Like so many good stories here at the Historical Society, it began with a reference question. Jeremy Belknap, hunting through his sources, asked Vice President John Adams for some help. Belknap, the ...

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Captain Edward N. Hallowell