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This broadside outlining the rules to be followed after receiving a vaccine was probably issued in 1810 in Providence, Rhode Island. The work done by nineteenth century physicians and amateurs was crucial in the battle against smallpox.
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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.
This paper considers Atlanta mayor Andrew Young’s shifting ideas about job creation and economic opportunity to investigate how Democrats abandoned their 1970s goal ...
As we begin to consider climate as an everyday problem, it's valuable to see how people did that in the past. With support from the Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Chaplin ...
In 2015, the Boston Federal Reserve found the median net worth for Black families in Boston was $8, in stark contrast to $250,000 for white families. This discrepancy is ...
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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 LJ Woolcock, Library Assistant We’re getting close to a year since the pandemic set in here in the US, which I think we can all safely say, no one could have imagined when things first ...
By Susan Martin, Senior Processing Archivist This is the first installment of a series on the diary of William Logan Rodman. Stay tuned to the Beehive for more. About a year ago, the ...
By Lauren Duval, NEH-MHS Long-term Research Fellow, Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma This past fall I was delighted to spend time at the Massachusetts Historical Society as a ...
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