“This day passed with very little to make it remarkable as indeed all happy days do. And I could not but think that my love was delicious and even if all futurity was pain, it could not at least deprive me of the recollection that I had also enjoyed its equivalent in happiness.”
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$350,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
The Adams Papers has been awarded $350,000 from the NEH. The two-year grant will provide critical support to advance the publication of the edition’s next four volumes. The Adams Family Correspondence, volumes 15 and 16, span the years 1801 to 1809 and chronicle John and Abigail Adams’s retirement to Quincy and John Quincy Adams’s first forays into political service. The Papers of John Adams, volumes 21 and 22, cover John Adams’s executive period from 1791 to 1798 as he served as vice president and then president. The grant will also support editorial work on the Adams Papers Digital Edition, which is freely accessible to the public through the MHS website. To read the NEH grant announcement, visit www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-30-million-238-humanities-projects-nationwide, and to learn more about the Adams Papers, visit www.masshist.org/adams.
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The tumultuous events of the Civil War took many men and women far from home and thrust them into unfamiliar occupations and duties for which they had little or no training or preparation. Even judged by this standard, few soldiers saw as varied military service as Samuel Miller Quincy, depicted in this anonymous watercolor portrait in full uniform as a (brevet) brigadier general of the United States Volunteers. Quincy was a stickler for the details of military dress and deportment (although no martinet, he frowned upon fellow officers who wore Masonic pins on the lapels of their uniforms or mixed civilian and military dress), and, as it would turn out, he was a stickler for accuracy in historical editing as well--even historical research done in the field during the war. Read more about Samuel Miller Quincy.
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On Thursday, 6 August, at 12:00 PM, Cheryl Knott, University of Arizona, presents Environmental Book History & the Reception of The Limits to Growth. In 1972, the authors of The Limits to Growth launched a worldwide debate by asserting that continued overuse of the earth’s resources would likely lead to environmental and economic collapse. Environmental scientists, policy makers, and economists have critiqued the authors’ assumptions and methods; from the book historian’s perspective, their work constitutes one form of reception. In this talk, Knott explores how bibliometric methods can be used to uncover additional aspects of the reception of Limits.This presentation is part of our brown-bag lunch programs. Register for the online program.
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