History: New England

Since its founding in 1792, the Massachusetts Historical Society has been one of the most important research libraries and manuscript repositories in New England. As part of its public outreach, the library offers over 50 digitized online tools, including an Object of the Month that gives detailed information and a digitized image of an important item in the archive, such as a dramatic photograph of the Boston & Albany passenger train from 1885, and an electronic archive of correspondence of the Adams Family (including those legendary letters between John and Abigail Adams) and original documents and papers from Thomas Jefferson. <http://www.masshist.org/>