By 杰里米Dibbell
On 7月28日星期三, please join us at 12 noon for a brown-bag lunch with research fellow Nicholas Osborne of Columbia University, “Saving Capitalism: The Rise of US Savings Banks, 1816-1865.更多信息 在这里.
怎么读??
By 杰里米Dibbell
MHS Librarian Peter Drummey put his Boston pronunciation skills on the line in a 最近的列 by Billy Palumbo over the “right” way to say “Tremont” (as in the name of the street). It’s an amusing look at some of Boston’s linguistic shibboleths, 它们利记APP官网手机版意思?, and what they say about us.
Tremont is one of the more interesting Boston words, but t在这里 are so many others to choose from. My personal favorite is Faneuil, which I think I’ve heard said at least ten different ways.
Do you have a favorite Boston pronunciation? Or is t在这里 one that just drives you up the wall whenever you hear it? Is t在这里 one so egregiously wrong that you would stop someone on the street and correct them? Feel free to chime in in the Comments section!
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By 杰里米Dibbell
In honor of Bastille Day, a snippet of an interesting letter from our collections which speaks to the topic. Writing to 约翰·亚当斯 on 11 January 1816, 托马斯·杰斐逊 looked back on the eighteenth century, agreeing with Adams that the period “witnessed the sciences and arts, 礼仪与道德, advanced to a higher degree than the world had ever before seen.“但, 他写道, at the end of the century, Europe fell back into its old ways: “How then has it happened that these nations, France especially and England, 如此之大, 所以有尊严的, so distinguished by science and the arts, plunged at once into all the depths of human enormity, threw off suddenly and openly all the restraints of morality, all sensation to character, and unblushingly avowed and acted on the principle that power was right? … Was it the terror of the monarchs, alarmed at the light returning on them from the West, and kindling a Volcano under their thrones? Was it a combination to extinguish that light, 让我们回到, as their best auxiliaries, those enumerated by you, 巴黎大学, 宗教裁判所, the Index expurgatorius, and the knights of Loyola? 不管利记APP官网手机版, the close of the century saw the moral world thrown back again to the age of the Borgias, to the point from which it had departed 300. 几年前.”
Going on to speak about France specifically, Jefferson admits that his initial impressions of the French Revolution had been mistaken: “Your prophecies to Dr. Price proved truer than mine; and yet fell short of the fact, for instead of a million, the destruction of 8. or 10. millions of human beings has probably been the result of these convulsions. 我没有，1989年. believe they would have lasted so long, nor have cost so much blood.”
“但,” Jefferson continues, “altho’ your prophecy has proved true so far, I hope it does not preclude a better final result. That same light from our West seems to have spread and illuminated the very engines employed to extinguish it. It has given them a glimmering of their rights and their power. The idea of representative government has taken root and growth among them. … Opinion is power, and that opinion will come. Even France will yet attain representative government.”
本周@ MHS
By 杰里米Dibbell
加入我们 7月14日星期三 for a brown-bag lunch talk with current research fellow Neil Dugre of Northwestern University. Neil will speak on his current research project, “Creative Union: Civic Innovation in Seventeenth-Century New England.” The event will begin at 12 noon. 更多信息 在这里.
赢得选票
By 杰里米Dibbell
非常有趣 Object of the Month essay this month by my colleague and occasional Beehive contributor Anna Cook – the object from our collections is a broadsheet handout for marchers in a 16 October 1915 Boston parade for woman suffrage in Massachusetts. It includes instructions for the parade, plus (on the verso) songs to be sung during the march and at the rally following. The parade, organized by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, included some 15,000 marchers!
Anna’s accompanying essay offers a brief overview of the struggle for the vote in Massachusetts, including a glimpse at anti-suffrage organizations such as the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (I doubt they used the acronym, since MAOFESW doesn’t quite roll off the tongue).
To find out what happened when Massachusetts men were asked to amend the state constitution in November 1915 and allow women the vote, read the conclusion to Anna’s essay, 在这里.
本周@ MHS
By 杰里米Dibbell
On 7月7日星期三, beginning at 12 noon, we’ll have a brown-bag lunch with research fellow Robert Mussey. The talk is titled “‘And shall we not be all together?’: Richard Cranch and His Family.更多信息 在这里.