In celebration of Women’s History month, this is the fourth post in a series by blogger Kim Reynolds (Curator of Manuscripts) focusing on BPL's special collections featuring notable 19th-century American women. Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885) was a noted abolitionist, editor, writer, and activist. She was the oldest of eight children born in Weymouth, Massachusetts to…
Celebrating Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) – archaeologist, architect, painter & printmaker
This year is the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Italian architect & printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Learn about him & his work.
Anti-slavery Manuscripts Final Project Update
As of August 12, 2020, the volunteer transcription phase of ASM is officially complete! To celebrate this effort, here are some statistics for the project.
“Help to make the world better”: Lucy Stone and the First Wave Suffragettes
On August 26, 1920 the 19th amendment was certified. To celebrate the 100th anniversary learn more about the history of the suffrage movement.
Brook Farm – “city of God, anew”
Founded in 1630, West Roxbury, Massachusetts is the home of the abolitionist and Unitarian minister Theodore Parker and the place where the Puritan missionary John Eliot is believed to have preached from “Pulpit Rock” to the Native Americans who had long populated the region. Most famously, it is the town where, in 1841, Unitarian minister…
Save Sacco and Vanzetti!
It's the 100th anniversary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, created to defend Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Read about this controversial case.
The Long-simmering Feud Between Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus Griswold
To commemorate Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday on January 19, the BPL is featuring the Rufus W. Griswold Papers, which contains fifty-five letters by or to Edgar Allan Poe, including seven important ones to Griswold. The long-simmering tension between Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and Rufus W. Griswold (1815-1857) began when Griswold—literary critic, editor, and anthologist—published The…
Victoria Woodhull: Activist, Free-Thinker, Presidential Candidate
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was an ardent campaigner for women’s rights, an advocate for sexual freedom, and the first woman to run for president of the United States. Born Victoria Claflin in Homer, Ohio in 1838, she received very little formal education. At the age of fifteen, she married Dr. Canning Woodhull and had two children…
Citizens of Boston! Anti-Slavery Broadsides in Boston
From the early 1830s, to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation outlawing slavery in 1863, Boston was the center of the American anti-slavery movement. It was the home of many leading abolitionists of the day including: William Lloyd Garrison, Maria Weston Chapman and her sisters, Theodore Parker, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles…
Notable Women, Notable Manuscripts: Emily Dickinson
In celebration of Women’s History month, this is the third post in a series by blogger Kim Reynolds (Curator of Manuscripts) focusing on BPL's special collections featuring notable 19th century American women. Poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in the family home known as Homestead. From a prominent family, Dickinson attended Amherst Academy…
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