The Nuts and Bolts of Participatory History

How can you engage students and volunteers in “doing history”? Sessions at the upcoming Mass History Conference will walk through the planning, management, challenges, and benefits of history projects that have engaged audiences of all ages in researching and improving access to history.

Crowdsourced transcription projects have the power to engage volunteers while vastly improving access to historical documents. In CROWDSOURCING TRANSCRIPTION,* presenters will discuss crowdsourced transcription projects at the Brookline Historical Society and Historic New England.

In STORIES ALIVE: PLACE-BASED MULTIGENERATIONAL HISTORY EXPLORATIONS, presenters from the Leverett Historical Commission and the Leverett Elementary School will discuss two collaborative projects, “Civil War Days: Leverett in the Civil War Era” and “The One-Room Schoolhouse Project.”

*MA Municipal Clerks receive free access to this session, courtesy of session sponsor the State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)!

Check out the 2022 MA History Conference program to learn more about these and other sessions.

Today is the LAST DAY to register for the full conference. REGISTER HERE!