MHS Annual Report - July 2024 to June 2025

July 2024 – June 2025

Learn more about this collection on page 8.

By the Numbers

FY2025: July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025

250 LINEAR FEET OF MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL PROCESSED

278 DAYS MHS READING ROOM OPEN (JULY 1, 2024, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025)

68 FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED (INCLUDING MHS SHORT-TERM, NERFC, TEACHER, AND STUDENT)

6,000

COLLECTION ITEMS CIRCULATED (DOES NOT INCLUDE SELF-SERVICE MATERIALS, MICROFILMED COLLECTIONS, OR USE OF COLLECTION ITEMS BY MHS STAFF)

4,533

ATTENDEES (AT 21 PROGRAMS, 29 SEMINARS, 1 SPECIAL EVENT, 1 SYMPOSIUM, AND 2 CONFERENCES)

1 RECORD-BREAKING MAKING HISTORY GALA WITH 376 ATTENDEES

2,274

RESEARCH VISITS (514 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHERS FROM 28 STATES AND 19 COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE US)

87,524

4,350

DIGITAL IMAGES CREATED INCLUDING MORE THAN 72,000 REFEERENCE IMAGES

STUDENTS FROM 90 SCHOOLS SERVED BY EDUCATION PROGRAMS INCLUDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY DAY

Year in Review

Gearing up for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution

We are delighted to present our FY2025 Annual Report. Throughout, we demonstrate successes in promoting understanding of the history of Massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge. This is the mission we have carried since our founding in 1791 and one that is especially relevant as we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.

Year 2 of our 3-year Sharpening Our Strategic Focus plan prioritized two main projects: enhancing digital access to our collection and the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. From our Making History Gala featuring Nathaniel Philbrick and landmark exhibition, 1775: Rebels, Rights & Revolution, to a sold-out conference and crowdsourcing efforts focused on transcribing Revolutionary-era collections, the MHS was abuzz with 250th activities.

As part of our efforts to engage young scholars in archival research, in June 2025, we hosted two students from The Hotchkiss School, a private high school in Connecticut, to support their Hersey Scholars program. This program brings 20 students to Boston to conduct historical research. And more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students were exposed to our collection through two dozen tours of the library.

We added 140 linear feet of new material to the collection. The Bullard-Lauriat family papers containing papers of Charles Lauriat, Jr., founder of Lauriat Books, are among the highlights. Lauriat was one of the survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Letters recounting his harrowing ordeal are included in the papers. Additional highlights can be found on page 8.

On the publications front, volume 19 of Sibley’s Harvard Graduates was completed with almost 150 biographies of students from the classes of 1775–1777, and we reprinted Paul Revere’s Three Accounts of His Famous Ride, one of our more popular picture books. The second of four final issues of the Massachusetts Historical Review arrived in mailboxes in FY2025. With the theme of disasters, this issue includes articles on colonial fires in Boston, the meaning of earthquakes, and transportation disasters in the age of steam.

In June 2024, we said goodbye to Catherine Allgor who served as MHS president for seven years. In June 2025, we announced that accomplished museum leader Lisa Krassner would take the helm as president. It was a big year with many accomplishments and forward momentum. Thanks to the support of our Trustees, Advisors, Members, and friends, we are poised to expand the Society’s reach and relevance as we continue to make history.

Levin H. Campbell, Jr.

Brenda M. Lawson Chair, Board of Trustees Interim President

Commemorating the 250th

Massachusetts and Revolution

It started here. In 1775, several key events in Massachusetts ignited the American Revolution. At the MHS, we commemorated these events with an exhibition, two conferences, large-scale digitization efforts, a teacher workshop, and expanded resources.

1775: Rebels, Rights & Revolution

Opening to great fanfare at the MHS on March 27, 2025, this immersive exhibition explored pivotal events leading to the 8-year war for independence. These events included Paul Revere’s daring midnight ride; the ensuing battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; and an 11-month siege.

Nearly 200 guests—and several news crews— enjoyed opening night festivities and as well as a first look at letters, diary accounts, broadsides, and artifacts from the MHS collection. These personal stories and unique perspectives provided insight into the tensions, choices, and conse -

quences faced by Massachusetts residents at the start of the American Revolution. We express our gratitude to the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism for the $75,000 grant to support the exhibition and related programs.

To support our efforts to provide audiences with information from our collection for the 250th and to supplement our exhibition, we reprinted one of more popular picture books, Paul Revere’s Three Accounts of His Famous Ride , now updated with full-color illustrations of the featured manuscripts.

Programs

Offer Deeper Understanding

The exhibition was just one opportunity for visitors to glean a deeper understanding of the people who shaped America’s fight for independence. Programming offered a variety of nuanced stories. Topics included French material culture in the Revolutionary Atlantic, local government

and popular politics, family disruptions amid wartime divisions, and artists who championed the American Revolution.

Expanded Resources Related to the 250th

A set of American Revolution biography cards for K-12 students were designed and printed in FY2025. The cards profile individuals and include an image of or related to the person as well as biographical information. Initial feedback from teachers has been positive and distribution of the cards to classrooms continues.

The History Source draws upon MHS collections to create source sets that are supported by activities and guiding questions for K-12 teachers. In FY2025, a new Revolutionary-era source set was added. Explore the 13 Revolutionary-era primary sources and more at www.HistorySource.org.

Nearly 13,000 pages of manuscripts related to the American Revolution were digitized, including:

• Hancock family papers;

• Warren-Adams correspondence;

• medical account books kept by Joseph Warren and, following his death at Bunker Hill, by his brother John;

• the papers of two Continental Army officers from Massachusetts, Benjamin Lincoln and William Heath.

Sold-Out Conference and Teacher Workshop

Along with programs and gallery talks related to the Revolution, the MHS co-sponsored a soldout conference, 1775: A Society on the Brink of War and Revolution , in partnership with the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society and the Concord Museum, where it was held. The conference sessions considered the challenges New England society faced in 1775 and how these factors impacted the outbreak of fighting in Lexington and Concord. Scholars Serena Zabin and Robert A. Gross gave the keynote address. Sessions spanned topics from faith, community, and impending war to material culture and memory.

A teacher workshop accompanied the conference. “Whose Revolution? Multiple Narratives of the American Revolution and Its Legacies in Massachusetts,” held at the MHS and Concord Museum, enabled 31 teachers to investigate archival and place-based primary sources and objects from the Revolutionary period. They considered multiple perspectives and gained a more complex understanding of the Revolution and its legacies. By prioritizing stories of historically underrepresented groups, the workshop offered an inclusive and a nuanced approach to a seemingly familiar era. Teachers commented that they appreciated the varied primary source materials that they could use in their classrooms, and everyone indicated that they would recommend future MHS workshops to colleagues.

Impact Making History Accessible

As part of our commitment to increasing public interest in history, we consistently and deliberately provide access to our collection and reach out to share our resources.

Born-Digital Records Now Available

In January 2025, we launched the MHS Digital Archive. Using software called Preservica, the MHS is now able to accept, preserve, and provide access to records that exist only in digital form, often called born-digital, as well as reformatted audio and video materials.

This software is critical to ensuring that scholars can access content stored via outdated media, such as VHS and cassette tapes, now and in the years to come. There’s a lot to explore on the MHS Digital Archive, such as the home movies of US Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985), which document his travels across the country.

Making Our Collection Accessible

We continue to process collections and publish content in areas of high interest to scholars and educators. In Fiscal Year 2025, we completed processing of the Davis family papers, including a diary, correspondence, and photographs from Peter Davis’s service in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, volume 19, is now available and contains biographical sketches of members of the classes of 1775–1777, a focus area for many researchers during the 250th.

All

Things Adams

The Adams Presidential Library, our web directory for all things Adams, was redesigned as part of a yearlong grant-funded project. The relaunched portal increases online content, streamlines access, and improves navigability. The effort created a scalable foundation for future expansion. Explore the pages at www.masshist.org/adams.

Publication of the papers continues apace. Volume 16 of the Adams Family Correspondence (November 1804–July 1809) was published with Harvard University Press and the digital version of volume 15 was added to the Adams Papers Digital Edition (March 1801–October 1804, published 2022).

Adams Papers staff boosted outreach efforts in Fiscal Year 2025 by organizing an interactive public program on the travels of John Quincy Adams, in recognition of the 200th anniversary of his presidential inauguration. They curated rotating displays of Adams materials, assisted researchers with reference questions, and participated in workshops and conference presentations.

Podcasting Grows at the MHS

The MHS produced season four of The Object of History and debuted a new podcast, Historians & Their Histories. The podcasts are available to hear on the MHS website as well as major streaming platforms.

The Object of History hit the road in season four. Over eleven episodes, the production team visited various organizations that have a connection to the MHS through our collection. The episodes featured interviews with representatives from these institutions as well as MHS staff to teach listeners more about the sites and connected items. Sites included Old North Church, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mount Auburn Cemetery, and the Museum of African American History, Boston.

Our new podcast, Historians & Their Histories, is released twice a month. Each episode profiles a scholar who received fellowship support from the MHS. They share their back story and what motivated them to study the past. Some scholars talk about their current work, providing a sneak peek at what’s to come.

K-12 Education Efforts Expand

Our robust K-12 education programs make primary sources accessible to students and teachers around the world. In Fiscal Year 2025, we served 4,350 students at 90 schools in Massachusetts, offering 29 K-12 programs, including teacher workshops, as well as 3 teacher and 4 student fellowships. These fellowships are a unique resource, allowing teachers and students the opportunity to conduct independent research in the MHS collection.

From workshops and research fellowships, teachers bring their findings back to the classroom, providing a richer learning experience for all. One educator commented, “The ability to engage with fellow teachers/scholars in authentic experiences and with primary sources is critical to my ability to teach. The biggest lack of resource as a teacher is time to engage with quality materials & to think critically about them. Every MHS workshop I’ve taken has allowed me that time.”

Showcasing Massachusetts History Day Students

More than 3,700 students participated in Massachusetts History Day (MHD) in Fiscal Year 2025. MHD, sponsored by the MHS, is the state affiliate of National History Day. This yearlong enrichment program allows students to conduct primary source research on a topic of their choice, and present their findings through a paper, exhibit, film, performance, website, or podcast. Students compete at local and state contests, with the winning students traveling to Maryland for the national competition.

The MHD program was showcased in March 2025 through a partnership with the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Court in Boston. The MHS Education team was invited as featured guests to the opening of the Stephen G. Breyer Community Learning Center on Courts and the Constitution. A select group of MHD students presented their projects to Justice Stephen Breyer and other guests at the Center’s opening at Moakley Courthouse. Six students from Bedford High and Hingham High, along with their parents and teachers, met with Justice Breyer personally as

he reviewed and offered thoughtful feedback on each of their projects. We look forward to continuing this partnership with the Breyer Community Learning Center.

History.org Launches

The MHS is an inaugural partner in History.org, an online K-12 resource initiative led by Colonial Williamsburg. The site, which launched in beta in 2025, provides teachers with primary sources on American history and teacher-developed materials for effectively bringing these stories to the classroom. The MHS contributed images and text for over 100 items. The site also features short educational videos produced by ed tech leader Makematic, with support from the MHS Education team. This new site will help bring items from the MHS collection into classrooms nationwide.

Conversations, Author Talks, and More

Alongside programs related to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, we offered a wide variety of programming including:

Making the Presidency: John Adams & the Precedents That Forged the Republic, with Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Louisa Thomas

The inaugural John B. Paine, Jr., Annual Lecture on the History of Business and Innovation: An Evening with David Rubenstein, with David Rubenstein and Lizabeth Cohen

A performance and panel: Creating Culture in America: AAPI Diaspora Lives with Harleen Singh, Tuyet Tran, and Lisong Liu

The William Hickling Prescott Award for Excellence in Historical Writing: presented to Stacy Schiff, who was joined in conversation by Megan Marshall

Four programs featured talks by authors of new books, including Kellie Carter Jackson, Catherine McNeur, Donna Tesiero, and Susan Wilson. The MHS participated in Opening Our Doors, a festival of free cultural experiences put on by the Fenway Alliance.

Why the MHS? Meet Laura Selene Rockefeller

MHS Trustee Laura Selene Rockefeller portraying Abigail Adams at the opening of 1775: Rebels, Rights & Revolution. Photo by Paige McWhorter Photography.

Who is Laura Selene Rockefeller?

Writer, actress, and first-person historical interpreter, Laura has been involved in many activities at the MHS. Currently a Trustee and member of the Education Committee and the Programs and External Affairs Committee, and she previously served on the Advisory Council and chaired the 2025 Making History Gala Committtee. She has perfomed at several MHS programs and is a passionate supporter of National History Day (NHD).

How did she become involved with the MHS?

Laura became involved with the MHS when she and Ty Hallmark were writing a play about Marian “Clover” Adams, inspired by Natalie Dykstra’s 2012 biography Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life. She notes that, “It was thrilling to discover that I could access Clover’s photographs on the MHS website and study them from my desk in Washington, DC.” She said it “took her breath away” when she visited the MHS and Chief

Historian Emeritus Peter Drummey brought out one of Clover’s albums for her to see. Laura says that being able to interact with an object that a historical figure created with such care is a powerful experience for someone researching her life and world. Every single writing project she has undertaken since “Clover” has involved research at the MHS.

What is her favorite item in the MHS collection?

While Clover’s photo albums are high on her list, Laura describes examining one of American patriot and financier James Swan’s (1754–1830) letters as an experience she will never forget. She says, “It was a powerful lesson to me in why there is no substitute for looking at the document itself. It was one of those research moments that hits you in the chest.” In this letter, Swan pleads with a friend to help him gain release from a debtor’s prison in Paris where, although Swan had no idea of it at the time, he would spend the last decades of his life. She carefully turned the letter over to examine his wax seal. The motto imprinted there under the three swans was, “Dum Spiro Spero.” “While I breathe I hope.” Tears come to her eyes just thinking about it.

Why should readers support the MHS?

In response to this question, Laura speaks to the treasure trove of documents and other items held by the MHS that illuminate the history of our country. She likes being part of a community that is excited to share the stories that those items tell. She appreciates how the MHS makes its primary sources available to celebrated scholars and grade school students alike. People at every age and at any point in their career can be inspired by the many voices of the past found in the vast MHS collection.

Why should people care about history education?

Laura is a proponent of history and civics education and is involved with several education initiatives at the MHS. She believes history and civics education has never been more important, expressing, “we are at a critical moment in our history when the future of our democracy is teetering in the balance.” She shares that it is vitally important that the coming generations understand our past so that they can make informed decisions about what they want our future to look like. She continues, “Gaining an understanding of the human stories and struggles that have gotten us to this point can help young people understand the importance of civic engagement and their responsibilities as citizens of our country and of the world.” Laura speaks about how easy it is to take liberty for granted when one grows up feeling assured of certain rights. She stresses the significance of providing access to read Abigail Adams’s letters about the importance of education for women, or one of Lucy Stone’s impassioned calls for women’s rights, because they “can help young people understand the enormity of the personal battles that individuals in the past had to fight to gain the freedoms we now enjoy.”

Why support National History Day?

Laura supports this yearlong initiative because it is a wonderful way to encourage and be inspired by the next generation as they engage with history in new and creative ways. The skills that students have the opportunity to develop through their NHD work is of enormous value for their futures. Not only does it help students enter college with confidence in their ability as researchers, writers, and public speakers, but these projects also give them an experience of engaging with and analyzing primary source documents. When students are able to look at a historical document and consider the words on the page, for whom those words were written, and by whom they were written, as well as how they were designed to impact their audience in that specific time and place, they have the skills to look more critically and discriminatingly at the information with which they are bombarded, and to discern fact from fiction. She concludes, “Being a judge or helping out at a feedback session, I find that the students’ work frequently illuminates something new for me, and it is thrilling to help students discover how relevant and exciting history can be.”

Acquisition Highlights From 1775 to Vietnam

1775 “Petty Book”

Used to record routine cash transactions, this 1775 “Petty Book” kept by an anonymous merchant in Weymouth, Mass., includes transactions with local militia for gunpowder, shot bags, a gun and other supplies, and the sale of everyday staples such as candles, sugar, textiles, and rum. Entries record the purchase of wine by John Adams just three days before he called for the boycott of Madeira wine imports, as well as accounts with African Americans Abel and Prince Pero. The petty book provides extraordinary documentation of commerce “on the ground” in the tumultuous first year of the American Revolution.

19th-Century Mourning Picture

In August 1803, tragedy struck the family of Rev. Isaac Clinton and Charity Welles when an epidemic of dysentery ravaged the area of Southwick, Mass., and took the lives of five of their six children.

The watercolor by Maria Clinton, depicted below, is a touching remembrance of her siblings lost. The piece has hallmarks of 19th-century mourning art: weeping willows, a line of headstones, and grieving survivors. Rev. Clinton points toward the heavens while Maria and her mother are depicted with handkerchiefs in their hands.

Weekly Pledge Box

This lithographed cardboard box was used to collect weekly pledges to the Massachusetts AntiSlavery Society. Wedgwood’s iconic kneeling figure of an enslaved person with an arc above reading “REMEMBER YOUR WEEKLY PLEDGE” is featured on the front; the back outlines the Society’s “Weekly Contribution Plan.” One side of the box shows a hymn by Maria W. Chapman; the other, biblical verses about slavery.

A Broadside with a Bald-Faced Lie

A broadside that begins, “HEAR THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET” deceptively appears to quote Mass. Sen. Daniel Webster. It was said to have come from Webster’s March 7, 1850, speech at Faneuil Hall in Boston, or remarks upon hearing another speech. The quotation and attribution were reprinted in newspapers from ca. 1862 to 1868 and appeared in several anti-Lincoln Copperhead periodicals. Contemporary newspapers called it out as a fraud, although not nearly as often as it was reprinted as “truth.”

Vietnam War Diary & Scrapbook

The Davis family papers contain volumes, personal and professional papers, and correspondence of Peter Kaiser Davis who served as a pilot during two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. His diary, kept from April 2 to December 16, 1967, covers one tour with the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121. In it, he notes duties, everyday activities, fellow soldiers, and flights he made flying an A-4E Skyhawk. A scrapbook covering his military training and career contains photographs, certificates and citations, orders, and news clippings.

New Acquisitions

The MHS acquired 102 linear feet of manuscript material in FY2025 through 139 gifts and 4 deposits.

Gifts

Adams Memorial Society

Additions to the Adams Memorial Society records

Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

Anonymous

Additions to the Lady Gertrude Codman

Carter papers

Descendants of the Bailey family

Bailey-Miles family papers

Robert Balfour

Letters from Henry James to Alice Mason Hooper Sumner

Marshall C. Ballou

Correspondence between Lance C. Ballou, Jr., and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Constance and Lawrence Barone

Andrew Bauman

Karin Bohleke

Carey Borden

Sarah Dixwell Brown

Elizabeth Bruce

Arthur Leonard Johnson papers

Hill Bullard

Marcia Butman

Marcia Butman papers

Martha Harvell Calef, daughter of Philip and Jessie Harvell

Harvell and Havens family papers

Chautauqua County Historical Society (N.Y.)

Hand-stitched notebook containing mathematical work of Abigail Balcorn (Fletcher)

Stephen D. Chubb

Christopher Coenen

Corland County Historical Society (N.Y.)

Robert Culbert

Christopher Davis

Davis family papers

Cornelia H. Dayton

Cassandra Dean

Dean DeBolt

Terri DeMitchell

Charles and Mary Dolan

Additions to the William Jenks family papers

Andrew Donnelly

Sheryl Eldridge

Letters from Rev. Athur T. Brooks to his wife Olive

Envisioning Access (deposit)

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers records

Karen Lee Estes

Rusty Farrin

Two narrative logbooks kept by John Boit, Jr., including a voyage to the Northwest Coast and Canton, China, on the sloop Union, 1794–1795

Fenway Studios Housing Cooperative (deposit)

Additions to the Fenway Studios records

First Church Boston (deposit)

Additions to the First Church Boston records

Sharon Fisher

Pam Fricke

Friday Evening Club (deposit)

Additions to the Friday Evening Club records

Dewolf Fulton

Thomas Furber

Gage County Historical Society & Museum (Ne.)

Gerard Gawalt

Hannah Goeselt

Daniel Gorman, Jr.

Len Gougeon

Bradford H. Gray

Kathe Gregory

The Pioneers (1928), a four-part color comic strip by Lovrien Gregory and Glenn Chaffin

Sean Griffin

Holly Grimshaw

Donald L. Hafner

Gregory J. Hansard

Terry Heller

Sherry L. Hergenreder

Arthur C. Hodges

Addition to his diary, 2024

H. Kirk Horstman

Hubbardston Historical Society (Mass.)

Ray Douglas Hurt

Lawrence and Lisa Katz

Jared Keyes

Tiny L. Kolberg

John F. Kotek

Letters to Col. Jeremiah William Coveney as Postmaster General of Boston

Kevin Lafond

Ledger of the Cambridge Bank

Anne Lauriat

Bullard-Lauriat family papers

Henry Lee

Pat Lettieri

Edward Lind

Civil War papers of William Lind of the 27th Mass. Volunteer Infantry

Joseph Lombard

Vincent F. Luti

Gladys Lyman

Collected Memories of World War II by Brothers James J. Treml and William B. Treml (2003)

W. Russell MacAusland

Additions to the William H. Prescott letters

Amy MacDonald

Susannah Church Maxwell

Church-Pomeroy-Sprague family papers

James W. Mayou

Copies of Mayou’s poems, including “Minuteman,” “Boston Strong,” and “The Day the World Stood Still”

Carolyn McBride

Christopher Harrison papers

Carolyn McLane

Ruth Meleen

Additions to the William P. Wharton diaries

Carol Miles

Addition to the Bailey-Miles family papers

Linda Millette

Mirabella Portland Quilters

Linda Murphy

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

Jeanne Musto

Jane M. Nickolaus

Lorraine Norwich

Lyle Nyberg

Derek Kane O’Leary

Marc-William Palen

Gary Patterson

Sharon Pecoraro

Pembroke Historical Society (Mass.)

Joanne Polster

Sally Shaughnessy Powers

Records of the Roxbury Women’s Democratic Club

Michael V. Pregot

Proprietors of Louisburg Square

Additions to the Proprietors of Louisburg Square records

Allison Romig

Abigail Saltonstall and William Saltonstall

Additions to the Leverett Saltonstall papers

Alvin Schaut

Schuyler County Historical Society (N.Y.)

Robert and Judith Silverio

Dorothy Skelley

Reiner Smolinski

Carole Steele

David P. Stevens

Peter Stickel and John Bumstead

Records of the New England String Ensemble

Robert T. P. Storer III

Letters to John Humphries Storer

Rand and Carolyn Swanigan

Nellie Hutchinson diary

Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.)

Letter from William Pepperrell to William Wadding, 1725

Erika Valenti and Scott Bogren

Additions to the Bogren family papers

Jere and Bill Voigt

Wayne County Historical Society (N.Y.)

Meadow Welch

John Whalen

Memoir of Emmett Whalen

Shelley Wheeler-Carreiro

Bob Williams

Connie Williams

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Wyandot County Historical Society (Ohio)

Mary E. Yacovone

John Yellen

Art and Artifacts

Faith Childs

Additions to the Bowditch-Knauth-JonesChild papers, including portraits of Theodora Bowditch Jones by Sarah G. Putnam

Robert Culbert

Medals awarded to James Francis Quinny

Julie Martin, in memory of Hannah Jane (Kitchin) Martin

Lithographed cardboard box used to collect weekly pledges to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

Rebecca W. S. More

Silver chocolate pot belonging to Rev. Phillips Brooks

Timothy T. and Rebecca W. S. More

Watercolor mourning picture of the Clinton family

Peter Torkildsen

Portrait of Samuel Shute by John James Bakker, ca. 1712

Purchases

Letter from Charles Francis Adams to Obadiah Wheelock

Tax payment records for Wards 5 and 6 of Boston, 1787

Log of a voyage from Boston to India in the bark Brothers

Constitution of the Charitable Association of the Boston Fire Department (Boston: David Hooton, 1835)

Letter from Benjamin Robbins Curtis to Edwin W. Stoughton

HEAR THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET. “If the Infernal Fanatics and Abolitionists ever get the power in their hands, they will override the Constitution, set the Supreme Court at defiance, change and make laws to suit themselves, lay violent hands on those who differ with them in their opinions, or dare question their infallibility, and finally bankrupt the country, and DELUGE IT WITH BLOOD.” DANIEL WEBSTER. Broadside falsely attributed to Daniel Webster, [1862].

HERALD, EXTRA. Newburyport, May 24, 1861. THE WAR BEGUN. “Extra” of The Daily Herald of Newburyport issued as a broadside

Invoice to the Town of Boston for advertising in the Boston Post Boy and Advertiser, July 1768

On the Death of Mrs. Hannah Bullard… (Holliston), 1825, broadside poem

“Petty Book for 1775,” account book kept by an anonymous merchant in Weymouth

Letter from George L. Prescott to Sarah Edes

Letters from Charles M. Riley to Eloise Delahunty during the Spanish-American War

Letter from Charles T. Russell to Rev. Dr. Anderson

Letter from William Savage to Frederic Tudor

Letter from Mass. Adjutant General William Schouler to an unidentified recipient

Six Letters from John Quincy Adams to Edward Livingston, On Masonry (Philadelphia: C.T. Jones), 1833

To the Democratic Votes of the Fourth Massachusetts Congressional District, [1852], broadside

“Two Thousand Miles in Sixty Days: A Journal of the Cruise of the Sch. Cook Borden…,” nautical diary kept by Andrew Homer Skinner of Fall River on a trading voyage in the schooner Cook Borden

Business records of Thomas Vose VOTERS OF BOSTON! READ! REFLECT! AND RESOLVE TO DO YOUR DUTY! AMERICAN CITIZENS OF BOSTON… [Boston, 1858], broadside

Wimpenny family correspondence

Letter from Robert C. Winthrop to Thomas Dawes Eliot

Financial Statements

Treasurer’s Report

I am pleased to submit this annual Treasurer’s Report to the Fellows and Trustees of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Our financial profile remains strong. Over the past five years, the endowment has grown by approximately 70% to $151.9 million as of June 30, 2025. This growth has enabled the Society to continue providing exceptional value to our stakeholders.

In FY2025, we completed the second year of our strategic planning process to increase institutional capacity and sharpen our strategic focus. As part of this effort, the Board approved temporary increases in the endowment draw rate from 4.5% to 5.5% to enhance our visibility and support investments in key personnel, technology, and facilities. Going forward, with expected increases in fundraising and continued, careful expense management, we plan to reduce the endowment draw rate to a more traditional percentage over time.

As of June 30, 2025, cash and investments were $156.6 million. This amount includes the endowment together with operating and capital reserves of approximately $2.8 million. Net assets were $163.5 million, including $60.5 million that is unrestricted. During the past fiscal year, we achieved an operating surplus of approximately $614,000. With ample financial resources and prudent fiscal management, the Society is well positioned for continued growth and development of our outstanding programs and services.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert G. Ripley, Jr., Treasurer

Statement of Activities & Financial Position (in

Thank You to Our Donors

Donors of $100,000 and more

Two (2) additional gifts in this category were given anonymously

The Estate of Henry Lee

The Estate of John P. and Catherine B. Grinold

Levin H. Campbell, Sr.

Richard N. and Allene R. Pierson

Robert and Jennifer Waldron

Donors of $50,000 – $99,999

Massachusetts Cultural Council

Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism

M&T Charitable Foundation

Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation

Patricia G. and Stephen D. Chubb

Michael A. and Laurie Ewald

Lia G. and William J. Poorvu

Donors of $25,000 – $49,999

One (1) additional gift in this category was given anonymously

G. Gorham Peters Trust

Mary W. Harriman Foundation

Charles C. and Kathleen L. Ames

Katherine L. Babson, Jr.

Edward B. and Elizabeth Baldini

Susan W. and James F. Hunnewell, Jr.

Robert G. Ripley, Jr.

Paul W. and Mary Beth Sandman

R. Newcomb and Katherine E. Stillwell

Alexander D. and Emily Whittemore

Conrad E. and Mary B. Wright

Donors of $15,000 – $24,499

One (1) additional gift in this category was given anonymously

NewtMont Foundation

The Joseph Peter Spang III Trust

Benjamin C. and Jennifer Adams

Elizabeth and Oliver F. Ames, Jr.

Christopher Davis

Jeffrey Griffith

Tom and Helene Lauer

Anne Lauriat

Hillary Hedges and Jeffrey F. Rayport

Laura Selene Rockefeller

Christopher J. Toomey

John and Elizabeth Winthrop

Donors of $7,500 – $14,999

The Algonquin Club Foundation

Clara B. Winthrop Charitable Trust

Quonochontaug Foundation

Frederick D. and Janet D. C. Ballou

Melinda and Matthew Barber

Alice D. Burley

Arthur G. Epker and Medha Sinha

Michael B. and Mary Fox

Candace Jans

Robert Kwak and Eunhak Bae

Anthony H. and Katharine Leness

Anne Craigie and Colin S. McNay

John and Elizabeth McQuillan

G. Marshall and Nina A. Moriarty

John O’Leary and Sarah G. Britton

James W. and Miriam Segel

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An anonymous, landmark gift of $3,000,000 was made to honor the fourdecade tenure and lasting legacy of Peter Drummey by endowing the Chief Historian position. The gift will provide financial stability in perpetuity, helping the MHS to fulfill its mission, enhance outreach, and provide access to historical scholarship.

John Q. and Natalie R. Adams

Nancy and David Ahillen

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Elizabeth Albert

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Mark Fisher and Janelle S. Fisher

Cathy Flanagan

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Stephen Mathis

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Vincent J. Mayer

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Chuck McCallum

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Joanne P. Melish

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Amy L. Moore

Patrice Moskow

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Regina M. Mullen

John and Betsy Munzer

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Neil and Cynthia Musante

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Anna Nagy

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Mark Nichols and Lowell Massey

Britain W. and L. Celeste Robb Nicholson

Nell Nies

Mary Beth Norton

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Mary J. Oates

James C. and Ann O’Connell

Sharon H. and Ron W. O’Connor

Richard Oetheimer

Bonnie and John Olsen

Jeff Olsen

Peter S. and Kristin K. Onuf

Nancy P. Osgood

Carolyn M. Osteen

Penny Outlaw

Susan W. Paine

Roy H. Pansey

William and Kathy Parent

Niles D. Parker

Michael Parran

Leslie Waldron Parsons

Janet and John Pattillo

Steven D. Pearson

Mark A. Peterson

Maureen Phillips and Doug Horst

Daniel Pierce, Jr.

Louisa Catherine Porter

Michael R. Potaski

George and Joan Preble

Susan P. Proctor

Harriet Prout

Benjamin C. and Maruta L. Ray

John and Laura Eby Regier

Eric Reines

Rosemary Reiss and Avner Ash

Kenneth W. Rendell

Linda S. and David B. Rhoads

Margaret E. Richardson

Daniel K. Richter

Corinne Ring

Harriet Ritvo

Cornelia Roberts

Elizabeth Roberts

Stephen Robinson

Diana Rockefeller

Dean A. and Mary S. Rogeness

Abby Rosenberg

Alan L. Rosenfield

Gerald A. Rosenthal

Michael and Karen Rotenberg

Nancy A. Roth

Barbara J. Rouse

Laura Russo

Mary R. Saltonstall and John K. Hanson

Peter Sanborn and Greg Jackson

Stacy Schiff

Judith Schulz

Barbara and Edward Scolnick

Nancy S. Seasholes

Theodore Sedgwick

Robert N. Shapiro

Jack Sheehan and Lucy Hutchinson

Nathaniel Sheidley

Ray Anthony Shepard

Molly and William Sherden

Robert Silberman and Nancy Netzer

Robert A. and Fran Silverman

Jill and David Silverstein

Benjamin Simmons

Robert W. Slater

Eric Slauter

Gayle Smalley and Judith Curby

Robert W. Smith

Merritt Roe Smith

Mary Smoyer

Thomas V. and Rosemarie Smurzynski

Megan Sniffin-Marinoff and Todd Marinoff

Christopher Sole

Daniel Soyer and Sheila McIntosh

Lynne M. Spencer

Deborah Spencer

Mary C. Spiers

Lionel B. and Vivian Spiro

Marie J. Stanley

Susan Staves

Doreen F. and Albert L. Stevens

Mary Otis Stevens

Thomas Stone and Valerie Warrior

Patricia Ann Sullivan

Virginia Swain

Anne Swingle Borg

John Taylor

Donna L. Tesiero

Louisa Thomas

Evan and Osceola F. Thomas

Squeakie Thompson

Joan I. Thorndike

Linda Thorsen

Bob Thurer

Ed Tiedemann

Polly M. and John M. Timken

Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

Daniel Toner and Wendy Fearing

Peter G. and Gail L. Torkildsen

Derek and Andrea Trelstad

Kenneth C. Turino and Christopher Mathias

Stanley A. and Susan S. Twarog

John W. Tyler

Anne Louise C. Van Nostrand

Virginia M. Vaughan

Rosamond Vaule

William P. and Tracy J. Veillette

Maryglenn Vincens

Andy Vinson and Kathleen Carton

Anne L. and Charles W. von Rosenberg

John Walker

Ann F. and Bradford S. Wallace

Marty Walsh

Martin J. Ward

John D. and Ann M. Warner

Abigail Wattley and Kevin Kingman

Henry Birdseye Weil

Robert J. Weiner, Jr.

Brianna Westphal

Warren L. and Diana Wheelwright

William H. White

Debbie Wiess

Mary Allen Wilkes

Rick Williams

Brenda Williams

Nathaniel T. Winthrop

Sara Withington

Douglas P. and Patricia P. Woodlock

Karin A. Wulf

Donald and Mary Yacovone

Sau Yip

Michael and Joan H. Yogg

Hollis and Josh Young

Albert and Judith Zabin

Linda Zukowski

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Trustees, Advisors & Committees

MHS Trustees

Levin H. Cambell, Jr., Chair

Benjamin C. Adams, Vice Chair

Susan W. Hunnewell, Vice Chair

Edward B. Baldini, Treasurer

Oliver F. Ames, Jr., Secretary

Hilary Hedges Rayport, Chair, Advisory Council

G. Marshall Moriarty, Vice Chair, Advisory Council

Alexander D. Whittemore, Vice Chair, Advisory Council

Katherine Babson, Jr.

Melinda Barber

Elizabeth A. Chang

Patricia Chubb

Michael A. Ewald

Annette Gordon-Reed

Gregory G. Groover, Sr.

Robert Kwak

Grace Lee

Anthony H. Leness

Richard N. Pierson III

Robert G. Ripley, Jr.

Paul W. Sandman

James W. Segel

Andrew E. Serwer

R. Newcomb Stillwell

Christopher J. Toomey

Robert Waldron

Judith Bryant Wittenberg

Brenda Lawson, Interim President, ex officio

Life Trustees

Levin H. Campbell, Sr.

Trustees Emeriti

Charles Ames

Frederick D. Ballou

William C. Clendaniel

Nancy R. Coolidge

Herbert P. Dane

Arthur C. Hodges

John F. Moffitt

Lia G. Poorvu

Hiller B. Zobel

MHS Advisory Council

Hilary Hedges Rayport, Chair

G. Marshall Moriarty, Vice Chair

Alexander D. Whittemore, Vice Chair

Richard D. Batchelder, Jr.

Peter A. Caro

Joyce E. Chaplin

Karilyn Crockett

Lawrence DiCara

Arthur G. Epker III

Iris Fanger

Michael B. Fox

Henry Louis Gates

Sharlyn Musslewhite

G. Nathaniel Jeppson

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Geoffrey R. T. Kenyon

Robert Krim

Paul Kuenstner

Janina Longtine

Anne Craige McNay

Claire Nee Nelson

John O’Leary

Penny Outlaw

Russell Pyle

Laura Selene Rockefeller

Byron D. Rushing

Mary Rogers Saltonstall

Matthew Scholder

Kristin Servison

Michael H. Shea

Louisa Thomas

William N. Thorndike, Jr.

Christian Westra

Edward L. Widmer

J. Rodman Wright

BOARD COMMITTEES

Audit

Robert G. Ripley, Jr., Chair

Edward B. Baldini

Elizabeth A. Chang

Michael Ewald

R. Newcomb Stillwell

Collections & Content Development

Robert G. Ripley, Jr., Chair

Benjamin C. Adams

Benjamin Bergenholtz

Liz Covart

Margherita Desy

Michael Ewald

Benjamin Johnson

Thomas Knoles

Beth Luey

Shana McKenna

Anne Craige McNay

John Adams Morgan, Jr.

Sharlyn Musslewhite

Kristin Servison

Development

James W. Segel, Chair

Katherine Babson, Jr.

Elizabeth A. Chang

Grace Lee

R. Newcomb Stillwell

Andrew E. Serwer

Facilities

Levin H. Campbell, Jr., Chair

Peter Caro

Robert G. Ripley, Jr.

Christopher J. Toomey

Tom Paine

Richard N. Pierson III

Finance

Edward B. Baldini, Chair

Melinda Barber (ex officio)

Michael Ewald

Robert G. Ripley, Jr.

Paul W. Sandman

James W. Segel

Christopher J. Toomey

Governance

R. Newcomb Stillwell, Chair

Benjamin C. Adams

Oliver F. Ames, Jr.

Katherine Babson, Jr.

Susan W. Hunnewell

G. Marshall Moriarty

Hillary Hedges Rayport

Alexander D. Whittemore

Investment

Melinda Barber, Chair

Edward B. Baldini (ex officio)

Grant Gund

G. Nathaniel Jeppson

Anthony H. Leness

William Thorndike

Abigail Wattley

Programs & External Affairs

Paul W. Sandman, Chair

Oliver F. Ames, Jr.

Michael Hoberman

Robert Kwak

Claire Nee Nelson

Richard N. Pierson III

Laura Selene Rockefeller

R. Newcomb Stillwell

Edward L. Widmer

Levin H. Cambell, Jr., Chair, ex officio

Brenda Lawson, Interim President, ex officio

COMMITTEES OF THE MHS

Adams Papers

John Adams Morgan, Jr., Chair

Benjamin C. Adams

Katherine Babson, Jr.

Joyce E. Chaplin

Rodney Mims Cook, Jr.

Annette Gordon-Reed

Sally E. Hadden

R. J. Lyman

Keneth P. Minkema

Louisa Thomas

Lisa Wilson

Hiller B. Zobel

Digital Initiatives

Liz Covart, Chair

Karen Cariani

Robert Chavez

Paul Kuenstner

Jessica Otis

Anelise H. Shrout

Sara Sikes

Kathryn Tomasek

Ian Roy

Constance Coburn

Education

Claire Nee Nelson, Chair

Christine Baron

Jonathan Chu

Annie Davis

Gregory G. Groover, Sr.

Haven Ladd

Gorman Lee

Charles Newhall

Elisabeth Nevins

Richard N. Pierson III

Laura Selene Rockefeller

Matt Wilding

Publications

Beth Luey, Chair

Paula C. Austin

Sally Hadden

Research

Michael Hoberman, Chair

Robert Bellinger

Christopher Capozzola

Liz Covart

Christine DeLucia

Annette Gordon-Reed

Megan Kate Nelson

Anthony Rotundo

Matt Scholder

Levin H. Cambell, Jr., Chair, ex officio

Brenda Lawson, Interim President, ex officio

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES

L. Dennis and Susan Shapiro Digital History Seminar

Molly O’Hagan Hardy

Ondine Le Blanc

Neal Millikan

Robert Nelson

Anelise Shrout

Boston Environmental History Seminar

Phyllis Anderson

Karl Hagland

Megan Kate Nelson

Chris Parsons

Andrew Robichaud

Boston Seminar on African American History

dann j. Broyld

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant

Traci Parker

Paula Austin

History of Women, Gender & Sexuality Seminar

Kelly O’Donnell

Rachel Walker

Kathy Peiss

Laura Prieto

Don James McLaughlin

Dina G. Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar

Kabria Baumgartner

Amanda Laury Kleintop

Evelyn Sterne

Benjamin Railton

New England Biography Series

Julie Dobrow

Natalie Dykstra

Megan Marshall

Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar

Katherine Grandjean

Brendan McConville

Paul Musselwhite

Lisa Wilson

MHS Fellows

Clark C. Abt, 1991

Benjamin C. Adams, 2001

Henry Bigelow Adams, 1990

John Weston Adams, 1984

John Quincy Adams, Jr., 2010

Nancy Motley Adams, 1992

Danielle Allen, 2023

David Grayson Allen, 2001

Catherine Allgor, 2012

Samuel G. Allis, 2005

Robert J. Allison, 2000

James A. Aloisi, Jr., 2005

Charles C. Ames, 2009

Kathleen L. Ames, 2014

Phyllis Andersen, 2004

Fred W. Anderson, 1995

Virginia DeJohn Anderson, 1995

Nancy S. Anthony, 2003

David Armitage, 2009

Christopher J. Armstrong, 2000

Chester Atkins, 1999

Paula C. Austin, 2021

Andrew Bacevich, 2011

Mardges Bacon, 2014

Brigitte G. Bailey, 2013

Peggy MacLachlan Baker, 1997

Frederick D. Ballou, 1995

Elizabeth E. Barker, Ph.D., 2016

Joeth S. Barker-Barlas, 2000

W. Lewis Barlow IV, FAIA, 2008

Georgia B. Barnhill, 2007

Robert C. Baron, 1984

James Barron, 2016

Lynne Zacek Bassett, 2011

Kabria Baumgartner, 2023

James Adam Bear, Jr., 1983

Karen S. Beck, 2009

Henry P. Becton, Jr., 1998

Ann Beha, 1989

James Brugler Bell, 1979

J. L. Bell, 2008

Michael J. Bell, 2013

Richard J. Bell, 2021

Robert A. Bellinger, 2005

Margaret Bendroth, 2016

Anne E. Bentley, 2002

Hapet A. Berberian, 2018

Benjamin Bergenholtz, 2019

Ellen Berkland, 2011

Winfred E. A. Bernhard, 2000

Max N. Berry, 2000

John T. Bethell, 1992

Mary S. Bilder, 2000

Elizabeth Bischof, 2025

Bailey Bishop, 1998

Barbara Aronstein Black, 1990

Elizabeth Blackmar, 2010

Brooke L. Blower, 2015

Robert F. Bluthardt, 2021

Priscilla MacKenzie Bok, 2023

Ronald A. Bosco, 2001

Christopher J. Bosso, 2002

Eileen H. Botting, 2014

Ronald Bourgeault, 2012

Jared Bowen, 2022

Beth Anne Bower, 2003

Q. David Bowers, 1987

Allan M. Brandt, 1996

James Braude, 2020

Helen Breen, 1996

Timothy H. Breen, 1997

Francis J. Bremer, 1996

Robert Brink, 2000

Valeda J. Britton, 2021

Lucinda Brockway, 2014

John L. Brooke, 1994

Lois Brown, 2010

Thomas J. Brown, 2022

Richard David Brown, 1985

Vincent Brown, 2017

Charles Faulkner Bryan, Jr., 2009

Douglas E. Bryant, 2016

Lawrence I. Buell, 1992

William Michael Bulger, 1987

Lonnie Bunch, 2016

Carol L. Bundy, 2007

Margaret Burke, 2012

Nicholas Burns, 2018

Kenneth L. Burns, 1990

Richard Lyman Bushman, 1974

Katonio Butler, 2013

John G. L. Cabot, 1989

Désirée Caldwell, 2009

Levin Hicks Campbell, 1977

Levin H. Campbell, Jr., 2009

Heather P. Campion, 2004

Christopher Capozzola, 2009

John Carey, 2019

Benjamin L. Carp, 2011

Vincent Carretta, 2010

James S. Carroll, 1996

Hodding Carter III, 1987†

Scott E. Casper, 2021

John Catanzariti, 1988

Mary Kupiec Cayton, 2013

Edward Chalfant, 2004

Rakashi Chand, 2025

Joyce E. Chaplin, 2008

Richard W. Cheek, 2014

Eileen Ka-May Cheng, 2017

Christopher C. Child, 2023

Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas, 2021

Jonathan M. Chu, 1992

Flavia Cigliano, 2011

Thomas Claflin, 2013

Christopher Clark, 2009

Dorothy A. Clark, 2018

H. Nichols Clark, 2020

Stephen Higginson Clark, 2018

William C. Clendaniel, 1997

Connie Coburn, 2014

Charles Cohen, 1995

Daniel A. Cohen, 2007

Lizabeth Cohen, 2020

Sheldon Samuel Cohen, 1990

Ellen R. Cohn, 2011

George T. Comeau, 2008

Lorna Condon, 2011

James B. Conroy, Esq., 2014

Edward S. Cooke, Jr., 2010

John Linzee Coolidge, 1969

Nancy R. Coolidge, 1991

Daniel R. Coquillette, 1983

Robert J. Cordy, 2002

Nancy Falik Cott, 1989

Edward Countryman, 2016

Liz Covart, 2021

Ralph Crandall, 1999

John Cratsley, 2005

James W. Crawford, 1986

William R. Cross, 2012

Dennis Curran, 2018

Emily Curran, 2003

John R. Curtis, Jr., 2009

Julia B. Curtis, 2009

Stanley Ellis Cushing, 2008

Richard D’Abate, 2009

Fred Dabney, 2012

Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., 1991

Lucinda Damon-Bach, 2025

Herbert P. Dane, 2007

John C. Dann, 1998

Robert Darnton, 2010

Keith Davis, 1999

Cornelia Hughes Dayton, 2001

Elizabeth Deane, 2016

William Decker, 2004

Helen R. Deese, 1997

Philip J. Deloria, 2023

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Christina A. Desan, 2017

Margherita M. Desy, 2005

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Curt J. G. DiCamillo, 2010

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Amy L. Domini, 1997

James Donahue, 2015

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John W. Dower, 2005

Margaret Drain, 1998

Peter Drummey, 2000

William S. Dudley, 1999

Christopher A. Duggan, 2020

Michael S. Dukakis, 2008

Ellen S. Dunlap, 2001

Marilyn A. Dunn, 2009

Natalie Dykstra, 2011

Margery Eagan, 2020

Carolyn Eastman, 2012

Jason E. Eden, 2019

Gordon Edes, 2019

Lois S. Edgerly, 1992

Paul Elias, 2011

Joseph J. Ellis, 1996

George W. Emery, 1999

Robert P. Emlen, 2013

Paul J. Erickson, 2017

R. Tripp Evans, 2018

Ros Everdell, 2020

Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, 1984

Jeannine Falino, 2011

Stephanie Fan, 2003

Iris Fanger, 2013

Jonathan F. Fanton, 2016

Drew Gilpin Faust, 2002

Kendra Field, 2018

Norman Sanford Fiering, 1984

Joan Fink, 2012

John H. Finley IV, 1998

Dennis A. Fiori, 2007

David Hackett Fischer, 1990

David H. Flaherty, 1992

Louise H. Flansburgh, 2012

Ronald Lee Fleming, 1988

Eric Foner, 2019

Robert Pierce Forbes, 2010

Alan Foulds, 2005

William Morgan Fowler, Jr., 1986

Pamela W. Fox, 2016

Lisa A. Francavilla, 2015

Patrick Francis, 2018

Stuart M. Frank, 2005

L’Merchie Frazier, 2021

Ronald F. Frazier, 2003

Richard M. Freeland, 1997

Joanne B. Freeman, 2010

Donald R. Friary, 1997

Mary Babson Fuhrer, 2015

Mark J. Gabrielson, 2014

Thomas F. Gagen, 2009

Gregory Galer, 2020

Alison F. Games, 2011

Gerald Gamm, 1999

John Lowell Gardner, 1977

John Ritchie Garrison, 2013

Richard Garver, 2014

Deborah M. Gates, 2009

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1992

Edith B. Gelles, 1999

Sara Georgini, 2022

Malick W. Ghachem, 2016

Alden I. Gifford, Jr., 2000

Paul A. Gilje, 2009

John A. Gilmore, 2011

Edward M. Ginsburg, 1992

Barbara W. Glauber, 2016

Kenneth Gloss, 2012

David Richard Godine, 1982

Susan J. Goganian, 2011

David Gollaher, 2002

Susan Goodier, 2025

Paul S. Goodof, 2009

Doris Kearns Goodwin, 1995

Edward W. Gordon, 2000

Jayne K. Gordon, 2012

Annette Gordon-Reed, 2018

Alexander Yale Goriansky, 2000

Eliga H. Gould, 2010

Anne Grady, 1998

Judith S. Graham, 2010

Patricia Albjerg Graham, 1990

Katherine Grandjean, 2017

Frederic D. Grant, Jr., 1991

Halcott G. Grant, 1999

Susan-Mary Grant, 2009

Brian Gratton, 2013

Michael S. Greco, 2016

Harvey Green, 2008

Kenneth S. Greenberg, 2008

Jack Phillip Greene, 1978

Kerri Greenidge, 2020

Gloria Polizzoti Greis, 2015

Anne Grimes-Rand, 2017

Jon Grinspan, 2022

Robert A. Gross, 1992

Sally C. Gunning, 2016

Philip F. Gura, 1996

Sally Hadden, 2012

Karl Haglund, 2004

Judson Hale, 1988

David Drisko Hall, 1981

Elton W. Hall, 1998

Michael Garibaldi Hall, 1977

Marilyn B. Halter, 2004

Suzanne Hamner, 2005

David J. Hancock, 2010

Lilian Handlin, 1985

Edward W. Hanson, 2001

Earl Harbert, 2004

Beatriz Betancourt Hardy, 2013

Bree Detamore Harvey, 2015

John B. Hattendorf, 2000

Anne Hawley, 1993

Elaine Heavey, 2019

Jonathan Hecht, 2011

Sean Hennessey, 2013

James A. Henretta, 1996

Alan K. Henrikson, 1996

Bayard Henry, 1996

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, 2022

Ruth W. Herndon, 2012

Edgar B. Herwick III, 2021

Janet Heywood, 1998

Arnold S. Hiatt, 1987

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, 1997

Margaret R. Higonnet, 2009

Daniel Hinchen, 2024

Erica E. Hirshler, 2014

Peter Hirtle, 2016

Michael Hoberman, 2013

Martha Hodes, 2015

Arthur C. Hodges, 1990

Margaret A. Hogan, 2008

Thomas Hollister, 2001

Wilfred E. Holton, 1999

Woody Holton, 2008

James Horn, 2001

Thomas A. Horrocks, 2000

James D. Houghton, 2014

Julian T. Houston, 2001

Daniel Walker Howe, 1997

D. Roger Howlett, 2005

David Hsiung, 2008

Nian-Sheng Huang, 2013

Robert Huberty, 2023

Robert N. Hudspeth, 2011

Christopher Hussey, 2000

James H. Hutson, 2002

William Huyett, 2025

Holly Jackson, 2025

Ira A. Jackson, 1997

Tito Jackson, 2022

Iván A. Jaksic, 2008

Maya Jasanoff, 2014

Christopher M. Jedrey, 1995

Micheline Jedrey, 2011

Stephen B. Jeffries, 2019

Elizabeth B. Johnson, 2011

Elvernoy Johnson, 2022

Marilynn Johnson, 2004

Richard R. Johnson, 1996

Patricia Johnston, 2021

Alan Harper Jones, 2016

Martha S. Jones, 2021

Daniel P. Jordan, 1986

Peniel E. Joseph, 2014

Jane Kamensky, 2000

John P. Kaminski, 2009

Paula M. Kane, 2017

Fred Kaplan, 2018

Stanley N. Katz, 1992

Susan E. Keats, 2015

Mary Kelley, 1994

Liam M. Kelly, 1988

Marisa Kelly, 2018

Randall Kennedy, 2001

Kevin Kenny, 2010

Linda K. Kerber, 1991

Phyllis Forbes Kerr, 1997

Mark B. Kerwin, 2015

Alexander Keyssar, 1994

Dean H. King, 2017

Patrick J. King, 2003

Gavin Kleespies, 2022

James T. Kloppenberg, 2005

Carol W. Knauff, 2025

Robert S. Kniffin, 2012

David T. Konig, 1996

Diana Korzenik, 1997

Katherine L. Kottaridis, 2009

Robert Krim, 2005

Joan D. Krizack, 2008

Susan Greendyke Lachevre, 2019

David Allen Lambert, 2011

William A. Larrenaga, 2011

John L. Larson, 2012

Catherine C. Lastavica, 2007

Kathy Lawrence, 2011

Brenda Lawson, 2002

Ondine Eda Le Blanc, 2005

Christopher Carter Lee, 2020

Henry Lee III, 2001

Lester P. Lee, Jr., 2005

Richard Leffler, 2010

Brian J. LeMay, 2012

David Leonard, 2017

Jill Lepore, 2011

Michael Lesk, 2017

William Edward Leuchtenburg, 1979

Donna Leventhal, 1999

Kevin M. Levin, 2021

Phyllis Lee Levin, 1997

James N. Levitt, 2005

Barry J. Levy, 2012

Emily S. Lewis, 2011

James Lindgren, 2002

Jessica C. Linker, 2024

Andrew C. Lipman, 2016

Warren M. Little, 1997

George C. Lodge, 1968

Janina A. Longtine, 2011

J. Jefferson Looney, 2003

Jonathan B. Loring, 2010

Margaret A. Lowe, 2009

Mary W. Lowell, 1997

William A. Lowell, 2000

David Luberoff, 2020

Beth Luey, 2010

Richard J. Lundgren, 1992

R. Jeffrey Lyman, 1996

Susan Storey Lyman, 1984

Katie MacDonald, 2021

Amy Macdonald, 2021

Charles S. Maier, 2014

Mary Malloy, 2000

Patrick M. Malone, 1997

Peter C. Mancall, 2022

Daniel Mandell, 2011

Jen Manion, 2018

Bruce H. Mann, 2009

Beatrice Manz, 2011

Stephen A. Marini, 1992

Margaret H. Marshall, 1997

Megan Marshall, 1991

Ralph C. Martin II, 2008

Sara Martin, 2016

William K. Martin, 1992

Louis P. Masur, 2012

Felix V. Matos-Rodriguez, 2002

John T. Matteson, 2011

Paula D. Matthews, 2010

John Mayer, 2018

Anita B. McBride, 2022

Melanie Elizabeth McComb, 2023

Brendan McConville, 2009

Drew R. McCoy, 1992

John J. McCusker, 2011

Joseph P. McEttrick, 2005

Philip McFarland, 1999

Arthur McGinnes, 2011

Matthew G. McKenzie, 2021

Irene Castle McLaughlin, 2016

Stewart D. McLaurin, 2022

Martha J. McNamara, 1998

James M. McPherson, 1990

David J. Mehegan, 2012

Joanne Melish, 2013

Richard I. Melvoin, 2004

James H. Merrell, 2009

Gary Milan, 2018

Richard Milhender, 1998

Elliott V. Miller, 2013

Margo Miller, 1994

Marla Miller, 2013

Richard F. Miller, 2003

Margot Minardi, 2014

Kenneth Pieter Minkema, 2009

Louise Mirrer, 2016

John F. Moffitt, 1998

Beverly A. Morgan-Welch, 2001

George Marshall Moriarty, 2011

Vernon R. Morris, 2018

Dane A. Morrison, 2018

Mark S. Morrow, 2010

Cecily O. Morse, 2002

Paula Morse, 2012

Bill Moyers, 1988

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., 2008

William F. Murphy, 1991

Cynthia J. Musante, 2019

Neil Musante, 2019

Paul P. Musselwhite, 2025

Robert D. Mussey, Jr., 2010

Joel A. Myerson, 1994

Carol Nadelson, M.D., 2013

June Namias, 1998

Heather S. Nathans, 2011

Johann Nuru Neem, 2023

Megan Kate Nelson, 2012

Nancy A. Nelson, 2009

Timothy C. Neumann, 2011

Margaret E. Newell, 2010

Charles L. Newhall, 2022

Richard Newman, 2014

R. Kent Newmyer, 1987

Colin Nicolson, 2009

Stephen W. Nissenbaum, 1991

Martin F. Nolan, 1995

Carl R. Nold, 2005

Stephen Z. Nonack, 2009†

Bettina A. Norton, 2004

Mary Beth Norton, 1983

Jane C. Nylander, 1998

Richard C. Nylander, 2008

Mary J. Oates, 1998

Barbara B. Oberg, 1999

Conan O’Brien, 2018

Sharon Hamby O’Connor, 1998

Thomas L. P. O’Donnell, 1995

John O’Leary, 2014

Andrew Oliver, 1986

Peter J. Olsen-Harbich, 2024

Robert K. O’Neill, 1994

Peter Stevens Onuf, 1998

John C. Orr, 2023

Russell Osgood, 1989

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, 2007

James M. O’Toole, 1992

Elizabeth Owens, 2014

Joan Pagliuca, 2019

Thomas M. Paine, 1991

John Palfrey, 2018

Anthony Pangaro, 2019

Edward C. Papenfuse, 2012

Bejamin E. Park, 2024

Christopher Parsons, 2020

Lynn Hudson Parsons, 2008

Deval Patrick, 2008

Gary D. Patterson, 2021

James T. Patterson, 1995

Anthony S. Patton, 2000

Joseph F. Patton, Jr., 2017

Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, 1983

Anthony D. Pell, 1996

Robert Pemberton, 2014

Lawrence T. Perera, 1988

James H. Perkins, Jr., 2013

James M. Perkins, 2017

Geoffrey Perret, 2000

John Curtis Perry, 1990

Sheila D. Perry, 2003

Mark Peterson, 1999

Nathaniel D. Philbrick, 2000

Jeanne Pickering, 2012

Larissa Vigue Picard, 2022

Scott H. Podolsky, 2010

Lia G. Poorvu, 2007

Jacob Myron Price, 1982

Laura Prieto, 2017

Elizabeth Prindle, 2009

Stephen Puleo, 2016

Jenny Hale Pulsipher, 2013

Jennifer Pustz, 2016

David Quigley, 2009

Martin H. Quitt, 1997

Richard Rabinowitz, 2017

Jack N. Rakove, 2017

Benjamin A. Railton, 2022

Anna Rasmussen, 2016

Neil Rasmussen, 2016

Benjamin C. Ray, 2013

Patricia A. Reeve, 2011

Kenneth W. Rendell, 2010

James Berton Rhoads, 1972

Linda Smith Rhoads, 1992

Heather Cox Richardson, 2013

Daniel K. Richter, 2001

Robert G. Ripley, Jr., 2011

Harriet Ritvo, 1995

Kyle B. Roberts, 2023

David M. Robinson, 2010

Laura Selene Rockefeller, 2025

Robert Rodriguez, 2020

Alan Rogers, 1992

Wilson D. Rogers, Jr., 1997

Charles E. Rosenberg, 2002

Michael J. Rotenberg, 2019

E. Anthony Rotundo, 2014

Barbara J. Rouse, 2009

John W. Rowe, 1998

Byron Rushing, 1998

Edmund Paul Russell III, 2017

Lawrence A. Ruttman, 2013

Amy E. Ryan, 2011

Richard Alan Ryerson, 1984

Elizabeth G. Ryland, 2014

G. West Saltonstall, 2007

Mary Rogers Saltonstall, 1994

Lucy Salyer, 2018

Christian G. Samito, Ph.D., 2008

Anthony M. Sammarco, 2004

Scott Sanders, 2018

Paul W. Sandman, 2011

Jonathan Sarna, 2013

Mark Robert Schneider, 2025

Bruce J. Schulman, 2011

Eric B. Schultz, 2010

Rebecca J. Scott, 1999

Calantha Sears, 1997

Ormond Seavey, 2023

Henry Sears, 2008

Nancy S. Seasholes, 2001

James Segel, 2005

Robert B. Severy, 2013

James M. Shea, 2008

Nathaniel Sheidley, 2020

Rachel S. Shelden, 2021

Valerie Shelley, 2020

Ray Shepard, 2019

Nancy Shoemaker, 2015

Eleanor G. Shore, 2021

John Shy, 1992

Sara Sikes, 2016

Nina Silber, 2009

David J. Silverman, 2011

Robert A. Silverman, 2005

Clement Mario Silvestro, 1987

Ruth J. Simmons, 2003

D. Brenton Simons, 2005

Kyera Singleton, 2021

Manisha Sinha, 2017

Eric Slauter, 2012

Albert Small, 1999

Carl Smith, 2014

Judith E. Smith, 2009

Merritt Roe Smith, 1993

Richard Norton Smith, 2001

Mary H. Smoyer, 2019

Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, 2004

Anne-Marie Soulliere, 1997

David H. Souter, 1998†

David B. Starr, 2019

John Stauffer, 2014

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., 2012

Harvey I. Steinberg, 1988

Anne E. Sternlicht, 2011

Eric Stockdale, 2005

William Stockwell, 2005

Eric Streiff, 2022

Michael Suarez, 2014

Natalia Y. Suchugova, 2009

Brian A. Sullivan, 2008

Charles M. Sullivan, 1991

Margaret R. Sullivan, 2010

Martin Summers, 2023

Kara W. Swanson, 2017

Kevin M. Sweeney, 1998

John W. Sweet, 2011

Paul Szep, 2022

Elyssa Tardif, 2022

Joel Tarr, 2016

Alan S. Taylor, 1992

C. James Taylor, 2002

Lisa Tetrault, 2014

Fredrika J. Teute, 2016

Matthew Thall, 2020

Evan Thomas, 2001

Sarah Thomas, 2016

Tamara P. Thornton, 2009

Edward G. Tiedemann, 2025

Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., 2008

Kathryn M. Tomasek, 2012

Leonard Travers, 2005

Olga A. Tsapina, 2017

Nicola Tsongas, 2006

Kenneth C. Turino, 2000

John W. Tyler, 1991

Reed Ueda, 1999

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 1991

Timothy L. Vaill, 2011

Lawrence Vale, 2020

Conevery Bolton Valencius, 2014

Mark Valeri, 2016

Allan van Gestel, 1995

William P. Veillette, 2010

Katheryn P. Viens, 2009

Celeste Walker, 2002

Ann Fowler Wallace, 2001

John F. Walsh, 2011

Jonathan Lee Walton, 2018

Barbara M. Ward, 2013

Gerald W. R. Ward, 2013

Susan Ware, 2009

John C. Warren, 1997

Alexander Webb III, 2011

Sinclair Weeks, Jr., 1991

Adrian C. Weimar, 2018

Margaret Wheeler, 2019

William H. White, 2003

Edward L. Widmer, 2002

Kemble Widmer II, 2016

Herbert P. Wilkins, 1997

Jack Williams, 2001

Rosalind Williams, 2015

Garry Wills, 1994

Lisa Wilson, 2004

Susan Wilson, 1996

Margaret L. Winslow, 2008

Frederic Winthrop III, 1980

John Winthrop, 1981

Jonathan Winthrop, 1994

Judith Bryant Wittenberg, 2009

Mark L. Wolf, 2009

Missy Wolfe, 2020

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, 2020

Charles B. Wood III, 2014

Gordon Stewart Wood, 1978

Douglas P. Woodlock, 1997

Ryan J. Woods, 2022

Hobson Woodward, 2015

Walter Woodward, 2008

Conrad Edick Wright, 2000

Lawrence Kinvin Wroth, 1969

Karin A. Wulf, 2013

Donald Yacovone, 2005

Mary Yacovone, 2019

Lawrence J. Yerdon, 2019

Xiao-huang Yin, 2012

Michael R. Yogg, 2003

Neil L. York, 2011

Serena Zabin, 2013

Rosemarie Zagarri, 2015

Nina Zannieri, 2000

Mary Saracino Zboray, 2011

Ronald J. Zboray, 2011

Philip Zea, 2012

Da Zheng, 2005

Hiller B. Zobel, 1969

† Passed away between July 1, 2024, and this printing

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