“Love, gratitude and esteem, I feel; You cannot doubt it; elaborate expressions of each of these affections of my mind, might prove a copious subject, and the goodness amiableness and many excellent virtues, which excite them, might if represented in their full perfection, adorn the purest Page, and give a fair example of female excellence.”
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MHS FY2019 Annual Report Now Available Online
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Our Annual Report is now available online. Browse through a digital flip book or download a pdf. Highlights include a year in review by MHS Board Chair Paul Sandman and President Catherine Allgor; an impact story about National History Day in Massachusetts; an acquisition spotlight on a collection of letters to William and Caroline Eustis; and an in
memoriam
piece about MHS Life Trustee Amalie Kass. Visit
www.masshist.org/about/reports
and scroll down to MHS Annual Reports to view.
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Featured Item from the MHS Collection
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Ellery Sedgwick, editor and publisher of
The Atlantic Monthly
, observed that "to an editor open-mindedness is of the first importance. [But] there is a point just below credulity and very far above skepticism where his mind should stick and open not one jot further."
This photograph, taken around 1919 by Bachrach, depicts Opal Whiteley in the process of reassembling her diary after it
had been ripped into thousands of pieces by a "jealous foster sister." In 1920, Ellery Sedgwick would publish extracts from Whiteley’s reconstructed journal in serial form in the
Atlantic
, and then an extended version as
The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
.
Read about the mysterious Opal Whiteley and how her diary fragments became a published book.
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On
Wednesday, 20 May, at 5:30 PM,
Gavin Kleespies, MHS, will present a virtual tour of historical markers in Cambridge.
Historical markers influence what and who we remember. Yet, they are not always what they appear to be. Some are just wrong. While some of these markers may not reflect the whole truth, sometimes the stories they tell offer important lessons about who gets to shape history. This virtual tour will explore Cambridge’s strange patchwork of unreliable markers including “mimic” houses, mislabeled trees, and even a fake rock.
Please note that this program is oversubscribed and registration is now closed. A recording will be available on Friday, 22 May at noon at
www.masshist.org/video
and on our
YouTube channel
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On
Wednesday, 27 May, at 5:30 PM
, join us for an online talk with Ted Widmer, Macauley Honors College (CUNY), about his new book,
In June, we will offer the following online programs:
- Allison K. Lange, Wentworh Insitute of Technology, and Catherine Allgor, MHS, will discuss Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
- John Lauritz Larson, Purdue University, will present Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America.
- Donna Harrington-Lueker, Salve Regina University, will present Books for Idle Hours: 19th-Century Publishing & the Rise of Summer Reading.
- Megan Kate Nelson and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, MHS, will discuss The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, & Native Peoples in the Fight for the West.
- Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University, will present 1774: The Long Year of Revolution.
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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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