Drawn from MHS collections, our primary source sets promote learning in U.S. history and civics and are supported by teaching activities and guiding questions.

primary source sets
 

 

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hexagonal stamp printed on aged paper and featuring Mandarin Chinese symbols in Black ink with a border or dragons. Red marks also appear on the page.
Opium Smugglers: Boston's Merchants and the China Trade, 1790-1850
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a sepia-toned photograph of a tall building and two women standing on the sidewalk outside of it
"A Great Public Nuisance": Boston's segregated schools in the mid-1800s
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Funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Mass Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, and an anonymous grant supported this project.

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