PUBLICK OCCURRENCES — April 3, 2024
History is for Everyone
This June, join us at the 2024 MA History Conference for sessions focused on bringing “invisible” stories into the light.
How do we illuminate the people that history forgot? Join us at the Mass History Conference on June 3, 2024 to hear from presenters who are focused on telling the “invisible” stories of their communities.
Collaborators on the Chinatown Stories Project will present on a neighborhood that has been largely invisible and overlooked, and rarely narrated by the voices of its own people. They will discuss how their project reveals the challenges and discrimination that Chinese faced during the Chinese Exclusion period and beyond, while narrating the building of the network of businesses, organizations, and residents that have created this strong community.
Collaborators Rediscover Mapledale and Interpreting Sports will highlight a community effort to preserve, research, and teach the story of the Mapledale Country Club, the first golf course and country club for Black golfers in Massachusetts. Despite its importance to Black history, the history of sport, and the history of Massachusetts, Mapledale has been all but forgotten. Presenters will discuss the challenges facing a locally-focused organization aimed at telling diverse stories in a racially homogeneous town as well as how we can broaden the use of sports history as a lens for challenging long held cultural ideologies.
Registration for the Conference opens April 16. We hope we’ll see you there!
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The Mass History Conference is hosted by the Mass History Alliance and supported by the generous contributions of our sponsors, including:
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Conference Partner Networking and Commons Named Session Sponsor Conference Supporter Conference Friend Conference Contributor |
