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When a researcher called looking for items written by the Massachusetts Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration, one wor...

April is National poetry month and Massachusetts has a number of famous poets who were born, raised, educated or lived their lives in our ci...

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from The History of Abraham Lincoln, and The Overthrow of Slavery , by Isaac N. Arnold. Chicago: Clarke...

Newton Highlands 1978 Now that spring is here, we might have a better perspective about this past winter and all the snow it brought. W...

Did you know that your State Library card gives you access to thousands of free eBooks? If you are a current Massachusetts Executive or L...

In January, the State Library of Massachusetts was celebrating a new year, newly renovated reading room and the state of Massachusetts was g...

Evacuation Day commemorates the evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston on March 17, 1776, following an 11-month siege of the ...