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Dec 14, 2021

The MHS building is open and receiving visitors to the latest exhibition and researchers in the library by appointment. Find exhibition hours here: masshist.org/exhibitions. Find visiting information here: masshist.org/visit. MHS Covid protocols here: masshist.org/COVID-protocols

Sara Martin

@SMartin_MHS

Feeling Abigail today from Jan. 1806, "not much snow; but intensly cold." #AdamsPapers

This week on the #Beehive #Blog, Asi-Yahola and the Second Seminole War. bit.ly/3l9dBIq #MHS1791 #NativeAmerican #Seminole Image from the collections of the

@librarycongress

Color photograph of a black and white print on aged paper. A Native American man stands holding a long gun and looking to the right. He wears a feathered had, long skirted dress and robe with several necklaces and a bag at his hip with strap across his chest. He wears low shoes with high socks. Next to him is a rock that reads "Osceola" the rest is not legible. The background is plain.

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For #AmericanPaintersDay view this painting of abolitionist Catherine Sargent, painted by realist Caroline Negus in 1838. The fine details of the lace cap, collar and black dress contrast with the plain stippled background. bit.ly/3kRIkd1 #MHS1791 #Painting #Painter

Color photograph of a watercolor painting of an older white woman wearing a lace cap and collar with delicate detailing, black dress and the hair around her face is in curls. She looks just over the viewers left shoulder and is seated facing the viewer. The background is stippled in greens, creams and purples that are light around the sitter, and darken towards the top of the painting.

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Joining the #ArchivesHashtagParty to feature the African American Meeting House in Boston, MA. Built in 1806 by free African American artisans, this building was a church, school and community place. bit.ly/3Y64yX9 #MHS1791 #ArchivesBlackDesign

@MAAHMuseum

Black and cream photograph of a brick building with large windows that span from the 2nd to 3rd floors, with two doors on the 1st floor. A Black woman stands next to the building in front of a wooden fence, she wears a plain dress and hat with white apron. The street by the building is empty. There is another Black woman further back in the doorway of the next building. She wears a black shirt, striped skirt and white apron.

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MHS Research

The deadline for the Loring Fellowship (supporting research on the Civil War Era) is 15 Feb. Do you study the Civil War Era, abolitionism, the Confederacy, Civil War soldiers & sailors? Apply today for 2 months of research at

. masshist.org/research/fello

@bostonathenaeum

Jim Ambuske, Ph.D. @jimambuske@historians.social

@JamesPAmbuske

Team: On 2/21 at 7 pm ET, I've the pleasure of hosting

@sarageorgini

Red Hill Rediscovered: Patrick Henry & John Adams (virtual) - Patrick Henry's Red Hill

on behalf of

@PHenrysRedHill

for a virtual conversation about two American Revolutionaries: John Adams & Patrick Henry. It's free! It's online! Register! redhill.org/event/virtual- #livestream #history

redhill.org

MassFamilies (formerly MFOFC)

masshist.org/events/series/ for more information and to register. #MHS1791 #DisabilityHistory

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@massfamilies

Inside:

Join us for a Conversation re: Race & Disability 2/15/23

Spread Some Love w/Us

@MHS1791 to host a FREE virtual series re: Disability History

We're Seeking BIPOC Family Leaders & Self-Advocates for Imagine Better ..and more! mailchi.mp/massfamilies/u

#DYK that the first Groundhog Day, with Punxsutawney Phil as the predictor, was held #OTDH in 1887? This tradition has been going strong ever since! We’re so sad to see that it’s six more weeks of winter this year though!

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Cumberland County, PA

@CumberlandCoPA

It's Official: Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today, predicting

more weeks of winter.

#GroundhogDay

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MHS Reference

@MHS1791_Ref

On #GroundhogDay2023 here is a children's book from 1859, The Life of Whitenose Woodchuck, by Uncle Faunus, Featuring the infamous Rattle-Battle! You will never look at Groundhog Day the same way again. #GroundhogDay #ChildrensBooks #archives

Join

for our virtual panel, Difficult Subjects: How to Handle Them? at 5pm tonight with Benjamin Anastas, Linda Hirshman, Alec Nevala-Lee, and Megan Marshall. Please register here: bit.ly/3WSuC6W #MHS1791

5 images in a banner. From left to right: a silhouette of a woman, green shoes, a boy jumping, a pair of hands reading a book, and a woman standing against a wall

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Elizabeth D. Katz

@elizabethdkatz

Feb 1

I'm looking forward to sharing a paper on the first women judges in the United States at the

on February 21. masshist.org/events/may-it-

Katie Turner Getty

@SiegeOfBoston

Oil painting of John Hancock's house, #Boston, built in 1737 by his uncle Thomas 📷Digital collections of

@historicne

#OTDH in 1865, the House of Representatives passed the #13thAmendment. Learn more about the #antislavery movement in Massachusetts here: bit.ly/3WSuC6W #MHS1791 #abolition

Image of a seal that depicts a kneeling woman in chains with the words "Am I Not A Woman And A Sister"

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Join

tonight at 5pm for our seminar, The Influences of King Philip’s War on American Political Thought with Daniel Mandell and Owen Stanwood. Please register here: bit.ly/40plxFU #MHS1791 #VastEarlyAmerica

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The MHS library is closed all day on Tuesday, 31 January 2023.

#OTDH 1882, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. The MHS collection has several items relating to #President Roosevelt, like this letter to Leverett Saltonstall expressing sadness at missing out on a ceremony at Harvard University. bit.ly/3RfwF3T #MHS1791 #POTUS

Color photograph of a black ink typed letter with the written black ink signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt at the bottom. It reads:
"THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 25, 1941
Dear Leverett:

Many thanks for your letter, reporting
on the Commencement Exercises and the presentation
of the Doctor of Civil Laws to me in absentia from
Oxford University.
It was a very great disappointment not
to be able to attend in person. General Watson
delivered your message to me and reported the
signal honors that had been shown him as my rep-
resentative, and particularly your gracious ref-
erences to me in your speech as Chairman of the
Board of Overseers.
In these trying times I have to miss
many things which would be a joy, and none would
have been a greater inspiration than the Harvard
ceremonies.
With best personal regards,
Very sincerely yours,

Franklin D Roosevelt

His Excellency,
Leverett Saltonstall,
Governor of Massachusetts,
Boston, Massachusetts."

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What can wax seals on archival documents tell us about the person who created the document? Find out in this #Beehive blog, Secret of the Seals. bit.ly/3WN2JNx #MHS1791 #WaxSeals #Blog

Color photograph of a dark circle of impressed wax on paper discolored with age. The impressed image in the wax is of a pelican with both wings stretched upward, neck and face arcing down towards a nest. She appears to have pierced her breast and her blood nourishes her young.

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#MHS1791 #FilmDiscussion #Winthrop #TheLastOfTheWinthrops

Join the MHS tonight at 6:00 PM, for Film Discussion: The Last of the Winthrops, with Viviane Winthrop. Please register for the online program here: bit.ly/3Y0M6zi.

@WinthropsMovie

Color photograph with edited content. The main photograph is of a middle-aged white woman facing the viewer but looking over the head of the viewer. She is wearing a navy blue trench coat, patterned scarf, and glasses with medium length brown hair. Behind her is a sunset over steppes in a desert to the left and a stone castle to the right. In the skey is superimposed faded images of airplanes with parachutes below them, a newspaper headline that reads "...Naughty..." and an image of a young white man and woman.

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Nominations due tonight!

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Jan 27

Nominations are due Monday, 1/30/2023 for the Patricia Behring Teacher of the Year Award. This Award recognizes two outstanding #NationalHistoryDay teachers at the national level! Nominate a teacher here: nhd.org/teacher-year-a @NatHistoryDayMA #NHD

Color photograph of two white women on the right looking at a black presentation board on the left. The board has cut out rectangles of white paper on red paper pasted all over. The white paper has unreadable printed text or images such as photographs, maps, or art. The woman in the background is younger with blonde hair and wears a green sweater, she holds a blue folder. The woman in the foreground is older with gray hair and glasses. She wears a green and black striped sweater.

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MHS Reference

@MHS1791_Ref

Did we miss #LibraryShelfieDay ? But we have so many Shelfies to share! (And so many shelves!)

MHS Reference

@MHS1791_Ref

Our Library Staff shares photos of items they found interesting in the stacks for #LibraryShelfieDay

Jan 27

Take a closer look at this ox or cow powder horn belonging to Ephraim Moors from 1775. If you look closely, you’ll see a rabbit carved into it! bit.ly/3ZX4tGN #MHS1791 #YearoftheRabbit

Color photograph of a carved corn with the small end becoming a spout and the large end closed. The carvings are drawings, words, and animals. The background is a dark blue.

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A red circle is around the image of the rabbit in a close up.

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A red circle is around the image of the rabbit in the full picture.

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#OTDH in 1837, Michigan officially became the 26th state in the United States. Happy 186th birthday

@migovernment

! See our record for this 1838 map of Michigan here: bit.ly/3Hutz8L #MHS1791

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NESSE DEMPS

@indiesoulmag

American Civil War Museum and 3 others

ON THIS DAY IN BLACK HISTORY: JANUARY 26,1863- The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment is formed. On this day in 1863, authorized by the War Department of the United States of America, the first all-BLACK REGIMENT in U.S. history was established.

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James Taub

@TaubHistory

One of the reasons I'm passionate about the French military participation in the #RevWar, is how much it was used to create cross-Atlantic ties during #WWI/#1GM. Here, in a speech to

, Lt. Col Paul Azan, Chief of the 🇫🇷 Information Mission to 🇺🇸, describes his connection.

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Join

today for a virtual seminar at 5pm for “To Make or Frame Curious Figures in Wax-Work”: Nostalgia and the Miniature in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Work” with Laura Earls and Miriam Rich. Please register here: bit.ly/3wu8N36

Image of 5 women put together in a header. From left to right: drawn image of a fashionable woman from the early 1900s in a black dress with a pink coat and matching hat and muff, a black and white photograph of an indigenous woman with a baby on her back, a photograph of a black woman standing in front of row houses in a white dress, an illustration of Joan of Arc in armor with her arm raised, and a pencil sketch of an Edwardian woman slouched in a chair with a lit cigar in her hand.

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Military History Now

@MilHistNow

On this day in 1863, Lincoln's War Department authorizes the raising of the all-Black 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Just 171 days later, the regiment will be in action in South Carolina.

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Revolution250

@REV250BOS

Rev250 resource of the day — In January 1773, Gov. Thomas Hutchinson and the two houses of the Massachusetts legislature entered into a protracted debate about the British constitution and the colony’s place in it. Read the texts here: buff.ly/3HwZ6qD

Craig LeMoult

@clemoult

Jan 25

Last week, I got to have a fascinating conversation with Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai of

The American Civil War Revisited

about the Civil War and the ways it still resonates with us today. If you weren't able to join us, you can see the video of that

@GBH

"ask the expert" event here:

youtube.com

Travel back in time to the 1860s during the American Civil War, when the North and South were engaged in battles over slavery, states’ rights and westward ex...

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Jan 25

Enjoy #LibraryShelfieDay with this walk along some of the MHS stacks. #MHS1791 #ShelfieDay #LibraryShelfie

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Jan 20

Take a look at January’s #ObjectOfTheMonth, An Indigenous Deed and Map of Lands in Connecticut. You can explore it in depth here: bit.ly/3vZapBs #MHS1791 #Map #Indigenous

Color photograph of a sheet of paper discolored with age. Black ink handwriting is seen bled through the backside of the paper. On the front side is a horizontal line going across the upper middle of the page. Down from that line are vertical lines with names associated with the areas. And a paragraph of notes towards the bottom of the page.

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MA State Library

@mastatelibrary

Jan 25

Happy #NationalShelfieDay!! Here's a peek at what our shelves look like. Search the hashtag to see what other libraries are sharing! 📚

This #NationalComplimentDay, remember to compliment someone you know and value! #MHS1791

OldSturbridgeVillage

@oldsturbridge

No filter needed! #ScenesOfNewEngland

On 1.24.1791, Jeremy Belknap organized the first meeting of the MHS. Today, the Society celebrates its 232nd birthday. Continue the legacy of education, preservation, and civic responsibility for generations to come by making a birthday gift at bit.ly/3GZlasM #MHS1791

Image of Jeremy Belknap. He is dressed in black with a white collar against a brown background.

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For #NationalComplimentDay, we are pulling some compliments from our archives, like this one from Mercy Otis Warren to her friend Hannah Winthrop about her late husband, Dr. John Winthrop: “I cannot but look up to him now as a good and wise being” #MHS1791 bit.ly/3D4csbt

Please join

for a seminar on The Witchmaster of the Waxhaws: Joshua Gordon’s "Witch Book" with Roark Atkinson, Douglas Winiarski, and Kenneth Minkema at 5pm tonight. Please register here: bit.ly/3XTD6LV #MHS1791

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MHS Research