Collecting History

by David McCullough

Book distributed to the Seminarians of MHS. From the introduction: The Massachusetts Historical Society holds more than 3,600 collections of personal and family papers--an unparalleled resource for the study of American history from the colonial period through the twentieth century. At the heart of its collections are the personal papers of three presidents, John and John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Examples of their manuscripts, together with...

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0934909954
• ISBN13: 9780934909952
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
• Length: 88 Pages