Historic Nantucket Magazine

The NHA’s publication, Historic Nantucket, draws readers into the history of the island as well as current events and programs within the organization. Themes as diverse as whaling, genealogy, and folk art are explored by contributing researchers and Nantucket Historical Association staff along with news from the NHA on our latest programs and projects.

For sixty-five years, members of the Nantucket Historical Association have enjoyed receiving this valuable and fascinating publication. For more information, or to contribute to the magazine, please contact us.

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Digitization of Historic Nantucket was made possible by a generous gift from Connie and Tom Cigarran.

2016 Annual Report2017

Featuring articles on 2016 Achievements, Giving, and Finances.More Read more from 2016 Annual Report

Ideas, Intrigue & IntoleranceFall/Winter 2016

Featuring articles on the (mis)adventers of William Rotch, marital regulation in the eighteenth-century Friends Meeting, William Wilkes Morris, the Seth Pinkham papers.More Read more from Ideas, Intrigue & Intolerance

Cover of the 2015 Annual reoprt with image of the old mill.

2015 Annual Report2016

Featuring articles on 2015 Achievements, Giving, and Finances.More Read more from 2015 Annual Report

Nantucket’s Design HeritageSpring/Summer 2016

Featuring articles on the advent of cottage-style living, the Alerion class sloop, saving Nantucket’s historic interiors, the early origins of Nantucket baskets.More Read more from Nantucket’s Design Heritage

2014 Annual Report2015

Featuring articles on 2014 Achievements, Giving, and Finances.More Read more from 2014 Annual Report

Imagining NantucketFall 2015

Featuring articles on the power of Exact Imagining, historical fiction on Nantucket, how an Island novelist captured Nantucket’s past, Wonoma’s Nantucket.More Read more from Imagining Nantucket

Big Ideas on a Little IslandSpring/Summer 2015

Featuring articles on the Nantucket Camels, Cyrus Peirce, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Nantucket Islands Land Bank.More Read more from Big Ideas on a Little Island

The World of the EssexFall 2014

Featuring articles on Nantucket 1819, Marquesas Islanders, of Melville, tortoises, and the Galápagos, Captain Pollard’s Lessons Learned.More Read more from The World of the Essex

2013 Annual Report2014

Featuring articles on 2013 Achievements, Giving, and Finances.More Read more from 2013 Annual Report

NHA Historic PropertiesSpring/Summer 2014

Featuring articles on the Oldest House, Old Mill, Macy Christian House, 1800 House, Old Gaol, Thomas Macy House, Quaker Meeting House and Fair Street Museum, Hadwen House, Fire Hose Cart House, Greater Light, Research Library, Bartholomew Gosnold Center.More Read more from NHA Historic Properties

DesertersFall 2013

Featuring articles on a Nantucket reunion in the South Pacific, Captain Charles Veeder disappears, a deserter in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Alexander Hussey, Sampson Dyer portrait of a Nantucket mariner.More Read more from Deserters

2012 Annual Report2013

Featuring articles on 2012 Achievements, Giving, and Finances.More Read more from 2012 Annual Report

Representative LivesSpring 2013

Featuring articles on Samuel Haynes Jenks, Jedidah Lawrence, Robert F. Mooney, and Eileen P. McGrath.More Read more from Representative Lives

2011 Annual ReportSummer 2012

Featuring articles on 2011 Achievements, Giving, and Finances.More Read more from 2011 Annual Report

The Melville IssueSpring 2012

Featuring articles on editions of Moby-Dick, Nantucket's Morris Ernst, literature and life, "Mystery Man" identity revealed.More Read more from The Melville Issue

The Boston Tea PartyWinter 2012

Featuring articles on the Boston Tea Party, Crispus Attucks, and the Boston Massacre.More Read more from The Boston Tea Party

The Whaling IssueFall 2011

Featuring articles on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and the NHA's whaling logs, naming the Pacific islands, Nantucket whalecraft makers.More Read more from The Whaling Issue

2010 Annual ReportSummer 2011

Featuring articles on 2010 Achievements, Giving, and Finances.More Read more from 2010 Annual Report

The Henry Coffin HouseSpring 2011

Featuring articles on Henry Coffin, the home of Henry Coffin, Henry Coffin Carlisle's attic museum, the garden at 75 Main Street.More Read more from The Henry Coffin House

The Presidential IssueWinter 2010

Featuring articles on presidential visits to Nantucket and presidential documents in the NHA's collections.More Read more from The Presidential Issue

America, Whaling & The WorldFall 2010

Featuring articles on two illustrated Nantucket whaling journals, pets on whaleships, Thomas Nickerson's account of the wreck of the Two Brothers, Papahanaumokuakea Marine Nantucket Monument, the earliest picture of the Essex disaster.More Read more from America, Whaling & The World