“To be good, and to do good, is all We have to do.”
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Featured Item from the MHS Collection
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This undated photograph shows members of the Boston Bloomer Girls baseball team. Beginning in the 1890s, teams of women players known as Bloomer Girls began to travel the country taking on all comers—semi-pro, club, and collegiate teams made up of men. They had no "home field" and often travelled by train, lugging along their own canvas "stadiums" and grandstands to small towns across the Midwest and western states. After a forty-year run, the last of the Bloomer Girls teams disbanded in 1934.
Read more about the Boston Bloomers and women playing baseball,
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On
Wednesday, 3 June, at 5:30 PM
, join Allison K. Lange, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Catherine Allgor, MHS, for a discussion about
Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
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Picturing Political Power
offers a comprehensive analysis of the connection between images, gender, and power. This examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment explores how suffragists pioneered one of the first extensive visual campaigns in modern American history. Allison Lange shows how pictures, from early engravings and photographs to colorful posters, proved central to suffragists' efforts to change expectations for women, fighting back against the accepted norms of their times.
Picturing Political Power
demonstrates the centrality of visual politics to American women's campaigns throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, revealing the power of images to change history.
Register for the online program.
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On
Friday, 5 June, at 2:00 PM
, join John Lauritz Larson, Purdue University, for a talk about his book
Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America
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After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, this modernizing process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced unimagined wealth and material comfort for some, yet it has also brought the global environment to a tipping point. John Larson analyzes the roots of an American "culture of exploitation" that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be.
Register for the online program
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Share Your COVID-19 Experience(s)
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The MHS invites you to contribute your COVID-19 experience(s) to our collection. Record your experiences on a daily, weekly, or intermittent basis. You can contribute your thoughts and images online. Visit our
COVID-19 web display
to learn more and to share your thoughts. Or, you can keep a journal and donate it to the MHS. Contact
collections@masshist.org
for more information.
Thank you to everyone who has shared so far. If you have not yet done so or would like to contribute again, please visit:
www.masshist.org/projects/covid/index.php
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You can also read what others have shared.
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