by Ben Franklin's World | Mar 1, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/323_Witgen.mp3 In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern borders of Canada and Georgia. How would the United States take...
by American Association for State and Local History | Feb 28, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession
By Bethany L. Hawkins, Chief of Operations, AASLH On Tuesday, March 1, hundreds of museum employees and volunteers from all corners of the field came together to speak to their legislators about the current needs of museums and how they can help. For the second year,...
by Historic New England | Feb 23, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Blogs, The Kiosk
Feb 23, 2022Over the course of her IMLS grant-funded fellowship, Recentering Collections Curatorial Fellow Mariah Gruner will share updates and discoveries. Exploring collections Moving through the stacks and shelves of objects in Historic New England’s...
by American Association for State and Local History | Feb 22, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession
We need a more productive public conversation about history. Today, AASLH is proud to introduce Reframing History, a new set of evidence-backed communications strategies for more effectively communicating what history is and why it matters to society. The result of a...
by American Association for State and Local History | Feb 21, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession
Once or twice a year we ask the chairs of AASLH committees to summarize what their group has been working on and plans to accomplish in the coming months. In most cases, the chair authored the report, though in some instances it was a staff member. While the main...
by Ben Franklin's World | Feb 15, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/322_Cook-Bell.mp3 During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’ war effort by issuing two proclamations that promised freedom to any...
