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What “The Plague” Has to Tell Us

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 15, 2020 | History News, Uncategorized

By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Albert Camus’s 1947 novel The Plague, set in Oran, Algeria, seems to anticipate our experience of the pandemic and its attendant crises: unemployment, economic collapse, natural disasters, social protest, violence, and a contentious...

A Moment to Listen: Learning from Ancestral Legacies

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 15, 2020 | History News, Uncategorized

By Katerin Collazo, Baylor University As a first-time attendee to an AASLH Annual Meeting, I was honored to be a recipient for this year’s Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Diversity. Currently, I am a second-year graduate student in Baylor University’s Museum Studies...
Tom Clavin—Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

Tom Clavin—Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 15, 2020 | History News

Tom Clavin is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and web site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps...
Archiving Your Gigabytes: Preserving COVID-19 and other digital collections

Archiving Your Gigabytes: Preserving COVID-19 and other digital collections

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 5, 2020 | Publick Occurences

PUBLICK OCCURRENCES — October 5, 2020 Conversations on the Commons invites you to: Archiving Your Gigabytes: Preserving COVID-19 and other digital collections October 9, 2020, 1:00pm – 2:30pm A Conversation with Veronica Martzahl, Digital Records Archivist at...
Jane Hampton Cook—Resilience on Parade: Short Stories of Suffragists & Women’s Battle for the Vote

Jane Hampton Cook—Resilience on Parade: Short Stories of Suffragists & Women’s Battle for the Vote

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 1, 2020 | History News

Jane Hampton Cook is a National media commentator and award-winning author who brings history and biographies to life, making them memorable and relevant to today’s news, current events, politics, issues of faith, and modern-day life. She is the author of...
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