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Vintage High School Films from Newton, MA Added to the Archives
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 11:52
These video segments were digitized from a 16mm filmstrip found in the Newton North High School Library Archives. We are working with the NNHS Archives while they are in the process of being moved into a new High School. As the Newton High School documents are digitized, they will be featured here alongside the Beverly Educational Archives, as part of a growing online collection of public school history.
In honor of Black History Month, we invite you to check out one of our most extensive projects to date. The Boston African Americans in Antebellum Boston project features a database of African Americans in living on Beacon Hill and surrounding neighborhoods between 1835 and 1865, tracing the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law on the population. The project includes a GIS map of the neighborhood, showing the locations of residents taken from Boston City directories and linked to demographic information from the federal census. Also included is research conducted by students using this new primary source material. Mixed in among these traces of the lives of everyday people are several famous abolitionists such as Lewis Hayden, William C. Nell, and Frederick Douglass.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 01:26
Boston Overseers of the Poor
Written by Administrator
Monday, 16 November 2009 03:33
Called "the documentary record of the most comprehensive public approach to the relief of poverty in colonial and revolutionary America", The Eighteenth Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor, edited by Eric G. Nellis and Anne Decker Cecere, is the basis for this online, interactive exhibit.
Welcome to our newly designed website, made more interactive to allow you to add content. Please take a moment to 
In honor of Women's History month, we're featuring our exhibit on 
In honor of Black History Month, we invite you to check out one of our most extensive projects to date. The Boston African Americans in Antebellum Boston project features a database of African Americans in living on Beacon Hill and surrounding neighborhoods between 1835 and 1865, tracing the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law on the population. The project includes a GIS map of the neighborhood, showing the locations of residents taken from Boston City directories and linked to demographic information from the federal census. Also included is research conducted by students using this new primary source material. Mixed in among these traces of the lives of everyday people are several famous abolitionists such as Lewis Hayden, William C. Nell, and Frederick Douglass.
