by Massachusetts History Alliance | Feb 19, 2025 | Conversations on the Commons Archive, History Studio, News, Publick Occurences
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 7:00-8:00pm A History Studio featuring Jane Sciacca, Massachusetts historian Colonial Sudbury, Massachusetts, was designated the Puritan Village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Feb 5, 2025 | Conversations on the Commons Archive, Publick Occurences
Join us on Feb. 28 at 12pm as we break down exactly how federal funding changes will impact history organizations in Massachusetts. Reality Check: How Much Funding Is at Risk for Massachusetts History Organizations? Friday, February 28, 12-1:30pm Federal funding is in...
by Mass Humaities | Jan 6, 2025 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession, Video
In collaboration with New England Public Media (NEPM), we’re thrilled to share a three-part documentary series titled “Legacies: Stories of Black History in the 413.” “Legacies” explores the Black experience in western Massachusetts. It is a production of NEPM,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 20, 2024 | Conversations on the Commons (event), Conversations on the Commons Archive, Publick Occurences
Friday, January 10, 2025, 12:00-1:30 p.m. A Conversation on the Commons featuring Sheila Green of the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism and Jonathan Lane of Rev250 America’s Semiquincentennial is just around the corner and Massachusetts is preparing for two...
by Mass Humaities | Dec 18, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession, Video
To commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2024, we produced a series of short films that revisit the Mass Humanities archive. Rural by Choice explores the complex idea of what it means to be “rural” in today’s day and age. It draws connections between a documentary film...
by Mass Humaities | Nov 12, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession, Video
Elizabeth (Betsy) More, program director at the Jewish Women’s Archive, explains how the first commercial edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, “exemplifies the power of coming together communally and collectively to tell our stories.” On October 24, we hosted a workshop...
