This fully illustrated catalog, published in 1991 to accompany the Massachusetts Historical Society's 200th-anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provides the reader with an engaging view of the books, manuscripts, artwork, and historical artifacts collected by the Society over two hundred years. Filled with color plates, black-and-white illustrations, detailed item descriptions, and entertaining anecdotal information, the catalog brings many of the most vital events in American and Massachusetts history to life through the examination of material artifacts. The book includes more than 160 of the most historically significant objects in the Society's collection―from paintings, prints, and engravings to unusual objects such as tea collected from the Boston Tea Party, a bureau whose drawers supposedly housed a witch during the Salem witch trials, and photographs of soldiers from the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the most important African American regiment raised in the North during the Civil War.

Witness to America's Past: Two Centuries of Collecting by the Massachusetts Historical Society

History

Americas

Massachusetts Historical Society

The Battle of Bunker Hill (A Massachusetts Historical Society Picture Book)

George Washington's Newburgh Address (Massachusetts Historical Picture Books)

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Originally published in 1672, 'New-Englands Rarities Discovered' was the first book to identify New England animal and plant life, medicinal recipes of the Native Americans and other natural lore. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pierides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

New England's Rarities Discovered

Politics & Social Sciences

Josselyn, John.

Social Sciences

Winthrop Family in America

Mayo, Lawrence S.

Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society

Oliver, Andrew

Reference

Former Massachusetts Historical Society director Louis Leonard Tucker's Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society offers not only a useful biographical sketch of Belknap, but also a close examination of his values as a historian and an in-depth treatment of the beginnings of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Belknap's preeminent role in the establishment of the Society in 1791 (as the first historical society in the Americas).

Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of The Massachusetts Historical Society

Biographies & Memoirs

Tucker, Louis L.

Regional U.S.

This collection of essays studies the role of a single state in the transformation of American life following the Revolutionary War. As the citizens of the state worked to establish their new Commonwealth and determine its relationship to a federal government also in its infancy, they were forced to confront challenging problems both within Massachusetts and outside it. Religious differences fractured the Standing Order, separating Unitarians and Congregationalists from each other at the same time that pressures from Episcopalians, Baptists, and others urged an end to the religious establishment. Poverty posed problems for Massachusetts at large, and particularly for Boston, at the same time that public officeholders struggled to create new governmental institutions both for the Commonwealth and for its capital. Massachusetts merchants had to develop new, independent patterns of trade in response to American withdrawal from the British Empire. Diplomats had to find a place for the Commonwealth in the world order. And federal officeholders from Massachusetts needed to address the most divisive of domestic issues, slavery. The essays in this collection reveal how Massachusetts coped with these unexpected problems of independence.

Massachusetts and the New Nation (Massachusetts Historical Society Studies in American History and Culture ; No. 2)

The Papers of Robert Treat Paine is a selected edition of documents primarily from the Robert Treat Paine collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Covering his public and private lives, the published Papers draws together correspondence to and from Paine beginning with his days at Harvard. The five-volume edition includes all of his correspondence with family, friends, clients, and fellow lawyers. Selected pieces also provide examples of his allegorical writings, his sermons, and his Harvard undergraduate club writings.

The Papers of Robert Treat Paine: 1746-1756 (Volume 1) (MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BOSTON//COLLECTIONS)

Historical

The Papers of Robert Treat Paine is a selected edition of documents primarily from the Robert Treat Paine collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Covering his public and private lives, the published Papers draws together correspondence to and from Paine beginning with his days at Harvard. The five-volume edition includes all of his correspondence with family, friends, clients, and fellow lawyers. Selected pieces also provide examples of his allegorical writings, his sermons, and his Harvard undergraduate club writings.

The Papers of Robert Treat Paine: 1757-1774 (Volume 2) (MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BOSTON//COLLECTIONS)

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