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...
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...
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...
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...
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...