by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 3, 2022 | News, Publick Occurences
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES — June 3, 2022 Bay State Legacy Awards The Bay State Legacy Award goes to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the interpretation and presentation of Massachusetts history. In particular, the award recognizes those whose...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 2, 2022 | History News
Caroline E JanneyAuthor Caroline E Janney, on her book, Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox, which takes on the dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, revealing that Lee’s surrender was less an ending than the start...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 1, 2022 | News, Publick Occurences
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES — June 1, 2022 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...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | May 26, 2022 | History News
Ben RainesAuthor and award-winning environmental journalist, filmmaker, and charter captain, Ben Raines, on his book, The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, which takes on the incredible true...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | May 24, 2022 | 2022 Mass History Conference
2022 Mass History Conference Stories Alive: Place-based Multigenerational History Explorations Online, 4:00pm-5:00pm, June 7, 2022 The Leverett Historical Commission and the Leverett Elementary School have been successfully collaborating for the past nine years...