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Watch: The Speech is the Star
To commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2024, we produced a series of short films that revisit the Mass Humanities archive. The Speech is the Star examines the explosion in popularity of the Reading Frederick Douglass Together program, from its first public...
Episode 398: The Shawnee-Dunmore War, 1774
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/398_Dunmore_War.mp3 After the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), Great Britain instituted the Proclamation Line of 1763. The Line sought to create a lasting peace in British North America by limiting British colonial settlement...
AASLH Announces New Location for the History Leadership Institute and Opens Registration for 2025 Cohort
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$7.2M Invested in Cultural Organizations Statewide
11.14.2024 Sara Glidden, Program Manager Cultural Investment Portfolio | Operating Grants for Organizations Visitors at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Our cultural life thrives because of the work of countless arts, humanities, and sciences organizations across the...
New Cultural Districts Designated in Holyoke, Watertown & Westfield
The City of Westfield, located in the Greater Springfield region, is a midsize community with a suburban feel and a mix of neighborhoods. Westfield has transformed significantly, evolving from an agricultural and industrial center into a thriving community with a...
Governor Healey Addresses Council Members
11.13.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Today, the gubernatorially-appointed governing body of the Mass Cultural Council convened its 164th business meeting at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, in Boylston. As the Commonwealth’s...
A New Strategic Framework
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEOAASLH staff, committees, and Council have been discussing the organization’s strategic direction off and on for the past several months. In this post, I would like to lay out the broad outlines of how we got to where we are today...
The stories behind meaningful objects – Betsy More
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...
Gaming Mitigation Fund Now Accepting Applications
11.12.2024 Lillian Lee, Program Officer Gaming Mitigation Fund Feet Keep the Beat at Arts at the Armory. Photo: Joni Lohr Photography. A new cycle of the Gaming Mitigation Fund is now open. The Fund – established under MGL chapter 23K, section 59 – provides grants to...
The stories behind meaningful objects – Lani Asunción
On October 24, Mass Humanities hosted “The Future of Storytelling” workshop in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Grantees were encouraged to bring in meaningful objects and share their significance with the group, focusing on the influence of these...
The stories behind meaningful objects – Brian Lim
On October 24, Mass Humanities hosted “The Future of Storytelling” workshop in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Grantees were encouraged to bring in meaningful objects and share their significance with the group, focusing on the influence of these...
Be Human
A message from Executive Director Brian Boyles Earlier this year, Mass Humanities unveiled a new brand and a redesigned website, along with a new tagline: Be human. When the two words first came up in our discussions, I wasn’t so sure. I was taught that a tagline is...
7 community leaders bring diversity of experiences to MH board
Mass Humanities is thrilled to welcome seven exceptional community leaders to its board of directors. “Our incoming board members bring new energy, new ideas and new connections,” said Aaron Vega, who was elected board chair at the September meeting. “Our new board...
Oaths, the Algonquian Bible, and Nipmuc history – Brittney Walley reflects
Brittney Walley currently serves on the board of directors for Mass Humanities. On the seventeenth of September I took an oath to join the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities’ board of directors as a governor’s appointee. To complete this process, I swore in...
Westborough Center Pastimes – November 6, 2024
Now is the Time to Grow: A Special Final Issue Over ten years ago, I started organizing Westborough’s historical town documents and then became the Local History Librarian. The local history room I inherited was mainly organized like a library, not an archive, which...