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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 story behind the beloved photograph of Benjamin Blake mid-jump. Read more.
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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.
by Heather Rockwood, Communications Manager On 22 April 1790, John Adams and Congress learned of Benjamin Franklin’s death due to pleurisy, a lung condition. Upon learning of his friend’s ...
by Susan Martin, Senior Processing Archivist In honor of Election Day tomorrow, I searched the MHS stacks for material related to elections. Unsurprisingly we have a lot! One collection I ...
by Jordan T. Watkins, Associate Professor, Brigham Young University The archive inevitably opens unseen roads of research, luring even the most focused historical travelers from their set paths of ...
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