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The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.
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Featured Item from the MHS Collection
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In 1854, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society sponsored a Fourth of July rally in Framingham, Mass. This broadside was created to advertise the event. Noted abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, and Henry David Thoreau, addressed the crowd. Garrison burned copies of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and the US Constitution, which he called
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a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
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For the Commonwealth’s abolitionist community, 4 July 1854 would be a day to recognize the nation’s greatest sin and to mourn the death of freedom.
Read more about the rally
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On
Wednesday, 1 July, at 5:30 PM,
Lindsay M. Chervinsky presents
The Cabinet: George Washington & the Creation of an American Institution.
On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries—Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph—for the first cabinet meeting. Faced with diplomatic crises, domestic insurrections, and constitutional challenges, Washington decided he needed a group of advisors he could turn to. He modeled his new cabinet on the councils of war he had led as commander of the Continental Army. Chervinsky reveals the far-reaching consequences of Washington’s choice to create what has become one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government: the presidential cabinet.
Register for the online program
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On
Thursday, 9 July, at 5:30 PM
, Ty Burr,
Boston Globe
, Robert Allison, Suffolk University, and others present
Boston in Film: From Eddie Coyle to Manchester by the Sea
. This is the first program in a series of three conversations in partnership with The Brattle Theater and Emerson College.
On
Thursday, 23 July, at 5:30 PM
, Ned Hinkle,
Jim Vrabel,
Brattle Film Foundation, and more present
Boston in Film: Beyond the Oscars.
This is the second program in a series of three conversations in partnership with The Brattle Theater and Emerson College.
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