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Episode 386: Joseph McGill, Sleeping with the Ancestors
Episode 383: Kevin Dawson, Aquatic Culture in Early America
Episode 382: Friederike Baer, Hessians in the American Revolutionary War
Episode 381: Martha Menchaca, Texas in the Spanish Empire
Episode 379: Susan H. Brandt, Women Healers in Early America
Beyond the Commonwealth
Mass Humanities sparks climate-focused community stories
Foundation supports 12 cultural nonprofits exploring how climate change impacts Massachusetts residents. Mass Humanities, the state’s leading funder of humanities programs, is equipping cultural nonprofits to be the next wave of climate change storytellers. In...
Remembering Indigenous People’s History
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Now Accepting Session Proposals for the 2025 AASLH Annual Conference
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Mass Humanities awards $1.2 million in EMS grants
Foundation funds 64 cultural nonprofits examining ideas and people of Massachusetts. In September, Mass Humanities concluded its fourth round of the Expand Massachusetts Stories (EMS) initiative by providing $1.2 million in grant funding to 64 cultural nonprofit...
395 Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/395_Carp.mp3 When we think about the American Revolution, textbooks, documentaries, and historic sites have trained most of us to think about American triumphs in battles or events when American revolutionaries overcame...
State to State: Massachusetts’ Native American and Indigenous People’s Equity Plan
10.07.2024 Declan Wicks, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Diversity Equity and Inclusion Showcasing State Arts Agency Ingenuity The Universe is My Regalia, a painting by Erin Genia. The following originally appeared on the National Assembly of State Arts...
HireCulture Leading the Way on Wage Transparency
10.04.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Diversity Equity and Inclusion Banner image from hireculture.org. In September 2020 Mass Cultural Council announced an update to Hire.Culture.org — our statewide creative employment site which last year...
2024 Governor’s Awards highlight the boundless energy of storytelling
On Thursday, September 26, over 200 friends and supporters of Mass Humanities gathered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum and Library in Boston to celebrate this year’s Governor’s Awards honorees: Cheryll Toney Holley, Bob Rivers, Jackie Jenkins-Scott, and...
2024 Governor’s Awards photo gallery
Our 10th annual Governor’s Awards in the Humanities ceremony took place Thursday, September 26, at the John F. Kennedy Museum and Library in Boston. Relive moments from the event by viewing our photo gallery. Mass Humanities Governors Awards 2024 Mass Humanities...
Watch: Love Letters to Lawrence
To commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2024, we produced a series of short films that revisit the Mass Humanities archive. Love Letters to Lawrence explores the impact of two major oral history projects that took place in the city of Lawrence—Shifting Gears: The...
Opportunities & Resources for Orgs – Oct 24
10.01.2024 Mass Cultural Council Staff Opportunities & Resources Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival Each month Mass Cultural Council shares a round-up of grants, trainings, technical assistance resources, and opportunities for creative and cultural organizations (a...
New Tribal Cultural Council Program Launches
10.01.2024 Jen Lawless, Senior Director of Program Operations Diversity Equity and Inclusion | Tribal Cultural Council Guided by the success of the Local Cultural Council Program Aquinnah-based artist, NaDaizja Bolling making a traditional twined sash. Her work...
Grow Your Audience with Our Festivals Toolkit
09.30.2024 Timothea Pham, Program Officer Festivals & Projects Boston Little Saigon Cultural District Night Market. Photo: Annielly Camargo. Are you a festival producer or part of an organization that puts on festivals or public events? Many of you work tirelessly...
Creativity & Recovery
09.24.2024 Dan Blask, Program Manager COVID-19 | Cultural Sector Recovery Grants Four Years of Pandemic Funding for Individuals in the Cultural Sector Cultural Sector Recovery Grant Recipient Hannah Lopez Vega, aka Hannah Schzde. The artist used part of her $5,000...
394 Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/394_Rosen.mp3 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...