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This paper considers coercive political practices among early historic southern New England Algonquians and their historical function in the success of early English colonies. In the spring of 1623, the settlement of Wessagusset, a rag-tag band of starving would-be…

有用的物品 examines the history of American museums during the nineteenth century through the eyes of 访问ors, 作家, 和收藏家. Museums of this period included a wide range of objects, from botanical and zoological specimens to antiquarian…

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MHS will feature a movie a month and then invite experts on the topic to lead a discussion on the film. 主题可能包括历史准确性，……

When did Americans begin using the term “the marriage market,” and what does that tell us about society at the time? This article-in-progress traces the emergence of the concept of marriage as a market subject to supply and demand to the early nineteenth century.…

Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures presents a history of health and medicine in the United States, tracing paradigm shifts such as the introduction of anesthesia, 采用细菌理论, 以及公共卫生的进步. 这本书……

New England is more seismically active than most would expect. Several notable earthquakes shook the northeast in the past, 比如1638年, 1663, 1727, 1755, or 1783, 仅举几个例子. In early America, earthquakes were rare enough, however, to be perceived as…

Boston National Historical Park is one of America's most popular heritage destinations, 每年吸引数百万游客. 之旅ists flock there to see the site of the Boston Massacre, 重温保罗·里维尔的午夜之旅, 登上旧ironside号……

黑色重建W. E. B. Du Bois stands as one of the most groundbreaking books in American history. 学者们已经承认了这本书的内容, 在1935年出版, 以及杜波依斯的论点, pioneered the study of Reconstruction today. 本文探讨了……

This panel discussion will consider two papers on the history of money from the mid-18th through the early 19th centuries. Katie Moore’s essay will examine the political, 经济, and monetary preconditions that informed the colonial 麻萨诸塞州 land bank "…

Please join us for a special evening in which Professor of English Abram Van Engen will receive the 2021 Gomes Prize for City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism. Van Engen will join historian Adrian Weimer to discuss the stories often told…

Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. 可怜的理查德的女性 reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion 和…

Join the current and former Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers to discuss the 1997 film 友谊. 的 film explores the history of the slave ship, 友谊, which set sail from Cuba to America in 1839. During the trip the enslaved people on board held an…

Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage 和…

In 1911, civilian workers at the Army’s Watertown Arsenal struck against the arrival of management engineers with stopwatches, leading Congress to ban certain Taylorist methods in military and other federal workplaces. After three decades, however, the ban was…

1976年足球赛季结束时, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's red light district to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, 毒品和卖淫猖獗, 暴力犯罪司空见惯, 腐败的警察把…

We confess: the idea came to us last October. 为什么不谈谈好奇和恐怖呢, eerie and inspiring enterprise of hunting up one’s subject’s final resting place? 的 NEBS steering committee members, Dobrow, Dykstra, and Marshall, all have stories to tell—…

今天, we remember this iconic American family as the vanguard of wealth, 权力, and style rather than as the descendants of poor immigrants. Neal Thompson introduces us to the first American Kennedys, Patrick and Bridget,…

This article examines efforts to quarantine people with AIDS during the mid-1980s. 的 campaign started after a PBS documentary aired about Fabian Bridges, a Black gay man, in 1986. Bridges lost his job and home after an AIDS diagnosis. As…

的 Industri-Plex Superfund Site in Woburn, 麻萨诸塞州, 现在是塔吉特超市的所在地, 被认为是一个成功的故事. 沃本在创作中发挥了关键作用, 塑造, 和改革超级基金, 正式名称为综合…

This paper investigates the transnational history of the feminist self-help handbook Our Bodies, 70年代和80年代的我们. It follows sociologist Kathy Davis’s approach of investigating feminism as an epistemological project and examines from a history of…

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States saw a massive expansion of popular entertainment. Scholars have long pointed to the importance of this burgeoning industry, linking its products to the changing racial dynamics, 性别关系, 和…

11月6日, 1931, Juliette Derricotte was killed in a car accident just outside of Dalton, 乔治亚州. Although the thirty-four-old social reformer survived the initial collision, she later succumbed to her injuries because the local hospital did not treat African…

How did Black abolitionists engage the meaning of higher learning at a time when American colleges were financially and intellectually tied to the political economy of Atlantic slavery? This paper will focus on Black abolitionist thought on higher learning and its…

Driven by the strong conviction that water resources needed to be managed, 控制, 并以合理的方式使用, fears about not being able to meet present and future water needs triggered and justified the proliferation of large water infrastructure projects…

This dissertation chapter examines newspaper advice columnists as resources for queer Americans. 从20世纪60年代初开始, 像阿比盖尔·范布伦这样的专栏作家, 安。兰德丝, and Helen Bottel elevated queer voices to millions of readers. 在……的背景下……

的 House Act of 1949 famously promised “a decent home…for every American family.” But this was just a goal, not a right of citizenship. This paper re访问s the debates that culminated in the 1949 Act to argue that it was the piecemeal liberalization of mortgage…

的 达特茅斯数字历史计划 (DDHI) is an open-source digital humanities project developing new ways of exploring oral history archives. In this paper, we discuss tools and methods developed since the project’s…

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获奖学者Daniel K. Richter is one of the most prolific historians working on Native American and Early American history. More than just serving as a premier academic as the Roy F. 和珍妮特P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of…