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Podcasts
Episode 358: Charles Tingley, St Augustine and Early Florida
Episode 357: Eric Jay Dolin, Privateering in the American Revolution
Episode 356: Paul Peucker, The Moravian Church in North America
Episode 355: Misha Ewen, The Virginia Venture
Episode 354: John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
Beyond the Commonwealth
Episode 414: John McCurdy: Robert Newburgh’s Trials: Queerness & Reputation in Revolutionary America
Episode 413: Dr. Joseph Warren & the Battle of Bunker Hill
Announcing the AASLH 2025 Leadership in History Award Winners
Announcing the AASLH 2025 History in Progress Award Winners
Announcing the AASLH 2025 Albert B. Corey Award Winner
LCC Member Nano Interview – May
05.28.2025 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager LCC 45th Anniversary | Local Cultural Council Program 2025 marks the 45th anniversary of the Local Cultural Council (LCC) Program, and one way we are honoring this milestone is to hear from the incredible...
Passport to History 2025 – King Philip’s War
How to Use Passport to History This virtual passport grants free admission for up to four people for their first visit to 4 local participating museums, as well as explore 10 sites with public historic markers, from June 2025 through September 2025. Visitors must show...
Episode 411: Paul Kahan, Philadelphia: An Early History
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/411_Kahan.mp3 Two hundred fifty years ago, in May 1775, delegates from thirteen British North American colonies gathered in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. Why was Philadelphia chosen as the seat of...
2025 Annual Conference Fellowships and Scholarships
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Creative Youth Development Organizations in this Challenging Time
05.16.2025 Käthe Swaback, Program Officer Creative Youth Development | YouthReach Their concerns, needs, and wisdom Express Yourself youth performance at the Boch Center Wang Theatre of their 30th anniversary production of EXYO Planet. Photo: Mike Dean. “Diversity,...
Card to Culture Shout Out – May
05.15.2025 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager Card to Culture We are grateful to these 52 cultural organizations committed to a more accessible cultural sector Author talk at The West End Museum. Mass Cultural Council is proud to partner with the Department...
Watch: Storytellers profiles from Lowell, Roxbury, and Framingham
Historians, artists, engineers, and more are expanding the stories of the commonwealth in innovative ways Catalyzing civic engagement – Framingham History Center In 2024, the Framingham History Center debuted “Framingham’s Collective Journeys: Stories of Immigration,...
Announcing the 2025 Election Slate of Candidates
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From Pulpit to Paper: Preserving the Legacy of Rev. Samuel Spring
Author: Olivia Englehart, Archival Field Fellow As an Archival Field Fellow with the Roving Archivist Program, I was paired with Central Congregational Church (Central) in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to process the Rev. Samuel Spring Papers, a collection documenting...
$6.5M in New Cultural Facilities Fund Grants Awarded
05.08.2025 Miranda Cook, Program Officer Mass Cultural Facilities Fund Performance by Castle of our Skins, a 2025 Cultural Facilities Fund grant recipient. Today the MassDevelopment Board of Directors approved 74 new Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) grants totaling...
Contact Congress: Save Agencies that Support History Orgs and Nonprofit Tax Status
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Senate FY26 Budget Recommends $26M for Arts & Culture
05.07.2025 Bethann Steiner, Senior Public Affairs Director Budget This week the FY26 state budget building process transferred out of the West Wing of the State House, which hosts the offices of our state representatives, over to the East Wing of the building, where...
The Danger of Disinvestment
05.06.2025 Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director Who loses when government walks away from the arts, humanities, and sciences? Family enjoying the Brazilian Festival in Worcester. Photo: Annielly Camargo. With all that is happening in the world today, and...
Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World’s First Personal Advice Column
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/410_Norton.mp3 When did people begin seeking anonymous advice for their most profound personal dilemmas? What can the answers to their early questions tell us about the emotional lives of people in the past? We’re traveling...
Watch: Creative Sector Advocacy Day 2025
Creative Sector Day 2025 took place at the Massachusetts State House on April 30. Aerialists, musicians, artists, policymakers, youth performers, photographers, dancers, and more gathered to show their support for the power of culture in the commonwealth. Watch this...