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Author Talk

Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth

18Sep 6:00PM 2019
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and  ...

Grad Student Reception

19Sep 6:00PM 2019

Calling all graduate students and faculty! Please join us at our tenth annual Graduate Student Reception for students in history, American Studies, and related fields. ...
Conversation

Can They Do It? Divisions on the Road to the 19th Amendment

21Sep 4:00PM 2019
There will be a pre-talk reception at 3:30.

The women’s suffrage movement was not always a cohesive or inclusive space for everyone who fought for the vote, nor did the Nineteenth Amendment bring about ...
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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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