The Object of History
Hosted by unknown · Massachusetts Historical Society
4.9from 41 ratings
- 53
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 41
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About The Object of History
The extraordinary collections of the MHS tell the story of America through millions of rare and unique documents, artifacts, and irreplaceable national treasures. Each episode of the podcast takes you on a behind the scenes tour of that vast collection. If you are someone who loves to learn about history through material objects and manuscripts, then this podcast is for you. This show uses materials by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk).
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Sept 2021
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 53 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Revisiting Maine and the Arnold Expedition
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And they pretty successfully made their way from Quebec to the Kennebec. The journal copies of it existed. Parts of it were redacted. So names of places were changed or just But Washington had a copy of this journal. And so he was kind of aware that this route existed. There were some indigenous Sakums who came down and tried to convince him that, you know, yes, this route exists. They could confirm it. They suggested, you know, maybe trying to utilize it. And then a man named David Getschel from the Georgetown area, he also confirmed that he had heard of this, that he and his sons had traveled part of it so that it did exist. […]
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- Tiffany Link
- Matthew Keagle
- Angela Tate
- Rachael Robinson
- Brandon McGrath-Neely
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- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
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