Stay engaged with the MHS this year!
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“I have told them constantly these twenty Years, what would be the Consequences, of their unjust designs against America. And as if an Angel from Heaven had revealed to me, the secrets of futurity, my Predictions have been literally accomplished. I look back with astonishment and recollect, what I have said and wrote, which has been printed thro this Period, and compare it with the Events that have followed.”
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An Unknown Love: The Letters of Amy Lowell and Elizabeth Seccombe
In this 17 September 1907 letter to Robert and Sophie Valentine, Elizabeth “Bessie” Seccombe movingly informs her friends that her long-term relationship with poet Amy Lowell has ended.
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“My life has been spent in the public service”: John Quincy Adams’s Final Years, 1843–1848
Transcriptions of more than 1,700 pages of John Quincy Adams’s diary have just been added to the John Quincy Adams Digital Diary. The new material spans the period January 1843 through February 1848 and chronicles the final years of Adams’s life, including his continued service in the United States House of Representatives.
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June events will be a mix of virtual and hybrid. Please be sure to register which way you will attend. Visit www.masshist.org/events for more information and to register.
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Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
This is a hybrid event.
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Annual Fiori Lecture: Old Institutions, New Things
This is an online event.
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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing & the Hidden History of Power in the 19th Century
This is a hybrid event. The program will begin at 6:00.
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Upcoming June Events
On Monday, 20 June, at 6:00 PM, Robert Gross, University of Connecticut; John Brooke, Ohio State University; David Waldstreicher, City University of New York; and Christine Heyrman, University of Delaware, present Reflecting on the Work of Robert Gross. This is a hybrid event.
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2022 Conrad E. Wright Conference
Underrepresented Voices of the American Revolution.
14 to 16 July
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Interested in Viewing Past Programs?
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If you missed a program or would like to revisit the material presented, please visit www.masshist.org/video or our YouTube channel. A selection of past programs is just a click away.
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Now on display:
Monday, and Wednesday through Friday, from 10:00 AM to 4:45 PM
Tuesday from 10:00 AM to 7:45 PM
Saturday from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Please note that the last admission for exhibition visitors will be 45 minutes prior to closing.
An advanced appointment is strongly encouraged for all researchers. Please visit our Appointment Request Form to select your preferred visit dates.
Please check our calendar for hours, building closings, and other events.
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