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• Adams Papers - (dead link)
  "The papers comprise over a quarter million manuscript pages of the letters and diaries of generations of Adams husbands, wives, and children including John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1874) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889)...The papers cover every major political development from the 1750s to the 1880s."
• The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection
  "This website presents images of the 51 volumes of John Quincy Adams' diary in the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Adams began keeping his diary, more than 14,000 pages, in 1779 at the age of twelve and continued until shortly before his death in 1848."
• The Decisive Day is Come: The Battle of Bunker Hill
  "...the Massachusetts Historical Society presents its first "web exhibition" -- personal accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and artifacts, either preserved by the participants or found on the battlefield."
• Educating Youth
  • John Quincy Adams
    One President's Adolescence
    "featuring Ordinary and Extraordinary Letters, Diary Entries, and Parental Advice from JQA's Early Years"
    Writings from 1773-1782
    Curriculum by Robert Baker, Teacher, Needham High School

Boston Symphony Orchestra

• Online Conservatory
  "...an interactive multimedia addition to its website, www.bso.org. Developed in partnership with Northeastern University and launching on February 7, the BSO Online Conservatory will offer music lovers an opportunity to explore some of the fascinating dimensions of the orchestra's performances through the power of the Internet."

Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry - (dead link)
Civil War. A brief information sheet on one of the first black units organized in the northern states. Includes links to letters and reports.

Five College Archives Digital Access Project
"This web site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history -- particularly women's education at the Five Colleges."
Amherst, Hamphire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, U. Mass
Maintained by Peter Nelson

[Gay Marriage] Boston.com - Special Report: Gay Marriage
Online version of The Boston Globe
Sections include: News ; Mass. ConCon ; Mass. SJC ; California ; US Constitutional Amendment ; Politics ; Opinion.

Massachusetts Medical Society - (dead link)

Massachusetts Court Rules Ban on Gay Marriage Unconstitutional
- CNN article, February 04, 2004.

Old Deerfield, Massachusetts Memorial Hall Museum
Museum of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.

• Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
  "Was this dramatic pre-dawn assault in contested lands an unprovoked, brutal attack on an innocent village of English settlers? Was it a justified military action against a stockaded settlement in a Native homeland? Or was it something else?...Explore this website and hear all sides of the storyóthen you decide."
  Sections include: 1704 Home ; Meet the 5 Cultures ; People ; Artifacts ; Maps ; Timeline ; Voices & Songs ; Explanations ; Glossary.

A Perennial Blessing : Celebrating Sophia Smith
"This exhibit documents what is known today about Sophia Smith -- her life, her times and her continuing legacy -- based on contemporary sources and original materials in the archival collections at Smith College."

Plimoth-on-Web
Plimoth Plantation : The Living History Museum of 17th-Century Plymouth.

Salem Witch Trials
Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
"...consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records."
Sections include: Archives ; Books & Letters ; Documents ; Maps ; People.
Project Director: Benjamin C. Ray, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

Salem Witch Trials Memorial - (dead link)

Smith College Archives
"The holdings are an important resource for the study of the history of Smith College, women's education, student life, and subjects such as women's war work and landscape architecture."
Includes a small online image gallery

Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College
"The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history...the Collection consists of 6,000 linear feet of material in manuscript, print, and audio- visual formats. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present. Subject strengths include birth control, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England."
Smith College Libraries

Worchester Women's History Project
"...raise awareness of the history of women in the Worcester area and to create national recognition of the role the Worcester area has played in the history of the women's rights movement."
Includes online material related to the 1850 & 1851 Conventions

Maintained by Mike Madin.
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