Massachusetts Historical Society is the first historical society in America. Founded in 1791 to "collect, preserve, and disseminate materials for the study of American history, " the MHS is celebrating 225 years of collecting, protecting, and sharing American history, life, and culture.
The MHS collections are particularly well-known for extensive holdings of personal papers from three presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The collections contain many famous documents including Paul Revere's own account of his famous ride and Abigail Adams’s famous "Remember the Ladies” letter to John Adams, where she advocates for the rights of women to be included in the founding of the United States. In addition, the MHS holds several imprints of the Declaration of Independence, and Thomas Jefferson's architectural drawings, among many other treasures.
Blacks may not had been welcomed but while growing up we weren’t exposed to the racism that existed in Boston. I grew up in Dorchester then Jamaica Plain and we were bussed to Brighton for middle and high school. Many of my best friends were white and from Southie but I couldn’t go to their neighborhood and they could not come to mine. Strange right. But it was not us kids who promoted discrimination and racist tendencies. Sadly it was the parents caught up in the bussing crisis. I have many great childhood stories to tell about my upbringing as a Bostonian. Segregation tried to destroy the city but my generation wouldn’t allow it 😊 We wanted no parts of it!
As a teenager I remember on Easter we would go to the movies and across the street was the pussy cat club that always remains a fixture in my mind. That was during the mid 70’s and 80’s. The Combat Zone 😂
I love McCullough. He’s my favorite history writer and I have 8 of his books and love them. But if you watch one interview you watch them all. He recycles the same jokes and clever lines over and over and over. His poor wife. “No one ever asks ‘how much time do you spend thinking?’”
Actually, Im descendant of Puritan New Englanders (my great grandmother was a very religious woman Lay Leader in Colorado)... Actually, she descendent of people like Edward Wightman (the last radical protestant burnt in stake)... His sons moved to New England .. Whom ideas related to Jewish Theology as we know... There is an association... My father wanted to circunise me for religious issues (my mother's family negated but he expressed that "just in case" (to save the soul?))... Interesting video! Thanks!
True story... Puritans werent fond of jews but they talked a lot of jewish history and theology and culture... In massachusetts I think many of the first puritan colonies spoke and wrote in hebrew the bible (old testament)... Actually, the fear of catholics is a true fact (I expressed It in my family history above)
My ancestors have a historical house museum in Amesbury Massachusetts it’s a small colonial house called the Macy - Colby house. My great grandparents 16x past were Anthony and Suzannah Colby. We have had a few Colby family reunions there over the years. Colby’s from all over the country come. It’s really nice. I love seeing my long time ancestors belongings and seeing how they lived and looked.
When you can call on Cokie Roberts, David McCollough and Nathaniel Philbrick to talk about your society, you must be something else! I can't wait to visit.
SHAME ON THIS VIDEO for not giving the proper credit to Gustave Whitehead who flew before the WRONG BROTHERS, and Whitehead flew in 1901 with over TEN EYEWITNESSES WHO SIGNED AFFIDAVITS THAT THEY SAW WHITEHEAD FLY IN BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT IN 1901. He may have even flown earlier in 1899.!!!
Where is the credit to Gustave Whitehead who flew in 1901 in Bridgeport Connecticut to multiple eyewitnesses who signed affidavits? Another inconvenient truth? The replicas flew in Connecticut and in Europe near the museum to Whiteheads honor. There are photos of Whitehead in the air in his plane, Jane's Aviation credits Whitehead with his achievements, I even spoke to the Whitehead family who still live in Connecticut, and the Park Rangers at Kitty Hawk when I spoke to them privately told me they knew Whitehead flew before the Wright Brothers in a controlled, flight and Whitehead may have even flown as early as 1899.
Not true according to the affidavits filed. Whitehead was the First in Flight, manned powered controlled flights years before the thieving Wrong Brothers.
Wood is a misguided communist and socialist. He twists history around to meet his own ends. He's a pseudo intellectual and gets his information from the New York times
It was really difficult listening to her because I felt like she was scrambling for the right words to say starting and stopping and I know it’s difficult doing these types of presentations, but I just felt like she was maybe a little unprepared but that’s just me.
This is brilliant. 🎉 maybe use more hashtags in the summary to reach a wider audience. I want to buy this book now. The two party system we have in the UK is also corrosive. But we are stronger together and democracy will prevail.
