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The Massachusetts Historical Society promotes understanding of the history of Massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
Massachusetts Historical Society's events
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urlA Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman & the Abolition of Slavery in the North
Wednesday, Dec 04, 2024 6:00p
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urlWilliam Hickling Prescott Award with Stacy Schiff
Monday, Nov 18, 2024 6:00p
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urlMaking the Presidency: John Adams & the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Wednesday, Oct 09, 2024 6:00p
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urlWomen and Children First: The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D.
Wednesday, Sep 25, 2024 6:00p
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urlA Civil Right: 20 Years of Marriage Equality in Massachusetts
Thursday, May 23, 2024 6:00p
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urlTelling the Untold Stories for Children: Biographies for Kids and Why They Matter
Thursday, May 02, 2024 5:00p
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urlItalian Influence on Boston's Culture, Economy & Politics
Wednesday, Apr 10, 2024 6:00p
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urlChasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Monday, Apr 01, 2024 6:00p
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urlNHD In - Person Feedback Session with Suffolk and Boston University
Saturday, Mar 23, 2024 11:00a
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urlWheatley in the 21st Century: A Reading & Book Launch
Thursday, Mar 14, 2024 6:00p
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urlNecessary Trouble: A Conversation with Drew Faust
Monday, Mar 04, 2024 6:00p
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urlTeacher Workshop: Perspectives on the Boston Massacre & the Legacy of Crispus Attucks
Monday, Feb 19, 2024 9:00a
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urlA Constitutional Culture: New England & the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire
Monday, Dec 04, 2023 6:00p
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urlWars Civil & Great: The American Experience in the Civil War & World War I
Monday, Nov 13, 2023 6:00p
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urlGay Community News at 50: Content, Controversy & Coverage
Wednesday, Nov 08, 2023 6:00p
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urlDemocracy in Darkness: Secrecy & Transparency in the Age of Revolutions
Monday, Nov 06, 2023 6:00p
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urlGay Community News at 50: Defining GCN
Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023 6:00p
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urlSpeculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 6:00p
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urlHenry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently
Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 6:00p
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urlGuardians of the Valley: John Muir & the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 6:00p
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urlFirst Family: George Washington's Heirs & the Making of America
Thursday, Sep 14, 2023 6:00p
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urlAmerican Relics & the Politics of Public Memory
Wednesday, Sep 06, 2023 6:00p
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urlCaribbean Americans & Politics: Celebrating 50 Years of the Caribbean American Carnival in Boston
Thursday, Aug 24, 2023 6:00p
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urlRevolutionary Things: Material Culture & Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Monday, Jul 17, 2023 6:00p
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urlAnimal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street
Wednesday, Jul 12, 2023 6:00p
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urlThe Rough Rider & the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, & the Friendship that Changed American History
Thursday, Jul 06, 2023 6:00p
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urlThe Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples & and the Unmaking of US History
Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023 6:00p
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urlPolitics & Pride: From LGBTQ+ Marriage to Trans Rights
Monday, Jun 26, 2023 6:00p
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urlPolitics & Pride: A History of Massachusetts's LGBTQ+ Politicians & Campaigns
Monday, Jun 12, 2023 6:00p
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urlWithout Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Sugeons
Wednesday, Jun 07, 2023 6:00p
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urlEmpire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
Monday, Jun 05, 2023 6:00p
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urlAmerican Inheritance: Liberty & Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765–1795
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 6:00p
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urlAAPI Voices from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 5:30p
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urlBanking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
Monday, May 22, 2023 6:00p
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urlThe Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929
Monday, May 08, 2023 6:00p
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urlIndivisible: Daniel Webster & the Birth of American Nationalism
Tuesday, May 02, 2023 6:00p
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urlBetween Boston & Bombay: Cultural & Commercial Encounters of Yankees & Parsis, 1771–1865
Friday, Apr 28, 2023 2:00p
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url"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love & Family in the Civil War Era
Wednesday, Apr 26, 2023 6:00p
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urlLooking Local: Researching History in Jamaica Plain, Boston
Thursday, Apr 20, 2023 6:00p
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urlMourning The Presidents: Loss & Legacy In American Culture
Monday, Apr 03, 2023 6:00p
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urlLethal Tides: Mary Sears And The Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
Wednesday, Mar 29, 2023 6:00p
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urlDinner With The President: Food, Politics, And A History Of Breaking Bread At The White House
Monday, Mar 27, 2023 6:00p
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urlThe Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World
Wednesday, Mar 22, 2023 6:00p
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urlClover: A New Play (Staged Play Reading)
Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 2:00p
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urlMaking Maine: Statehood And The War Of 1812
Wednesday, Mar 15, 2023 6:00p
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urlThe Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery And Independence
Monday, Mar 13, 2023 6:00p
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urlMaster Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery To Freedom
Monday, Feb 06, 2023 6:00p
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urlMHS Speakers Fund featuring Jessie Little Doe Baird
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2023 6:00p
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urlNo Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2023 6:00p
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urlUniting America: How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together to Win World War II
Wednesday, Jan 11, 2023 6:00p
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urlDemocratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
Monday, Jan 09, 2023 6:00p
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urlThe Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022 6:00p
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urlBoston Massacre: A History in Objects and Documents
Monday, Dec 12, 2022 5:30p
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urlThe Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Monday, Dec 05, 2022 6:00p
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urlAmerican Inspiration: Stacy Schiff with The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, and Writing History: An Extended Q&A
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022 6:00p
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urlParlor Politics: David Rubenstein Interviews Catherine Allgor
Sunday, Nov 20, 2022 6:00p
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urlWilliam Hickling Prescott Award for Excellence in Historical Writing Presentation
Thursday, Nov 17, 2022 6:00p
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urlLydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022 6:00p
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urlInferno: The Great Boston Fire of 1872
Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 2:00p
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urlThe Great Boston Fire: The Inferno That Nearly Incinerated the City
Thursday, Nov 10, 2022 6:00p
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urlBook Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
Wednesday, Nov 09, 2022 6:00p
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urlBlack Abolitionists & New Bedford's Underground Railroad
Saturday, Nov 05, 2022 9:30a
New Bedford Whaling Museum
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urlTeaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
Wednesday, Nov 02, 2022 6:00p
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urlResearch Projects at the MHS Sponsored by the Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts
Tuesday, Oct 25, 2022 5:00p
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urlBenjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life
Thursday, Oct 20, 2022 6:00p
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urlA Tale of the Coolidges, The Algonquin Club of Boston, and American Memory
Thursday, Oct 06, 2022 6:00p
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urlJefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Monday, Oct 03, 2022 6:00p
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urlRebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Wednesday, Sep 28, 2022 6:00p
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urlWhere Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub
Thursday, Sep 22, 2022 6:00p
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urlThe Politics Of Massachusetts Exceptionalism
Wednesday, Jul 13, 2022 6:00p
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urlHidden In Plain Sight: Documenting Queer Stories In Archives
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2022 6:00p
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urlThe Imposter's War: The Press Propaganda, And The Newsman Who Battled For The Minds Of America
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2022 6:00p
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urlOnly The Clothes On Her Back: Clothing And The Hidden History Of Power In The 19th Century
Monday, Jun 13, 2022 6:00p
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urlBorn In Cambridge: 400 Year Of Ideas And Innovators
Thursday, Jun 09, 2022 6:00p
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urlHidden In Plain Sight: Remembering Queer Nightlife
Monday, Jun 06, 2022 6:00p
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urlPublic Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History Of The Women's Suffrage Movement
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2022 6:00p
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urlBoston At 200: Where We Were, Where We Are, And Where We’re Going
Monday, May 09, 2022 6:00p
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