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Beyond the Commonwealth
Reading Douglass in Belfast
By Brian Boyles A newly dedicated statue of Frederick Douglass stands on a scruffy block in Belfast, Northern Ireland, between a vintage clothing store and a Caffe Nero, just around the corner from the First Presbyterian Church, where Douglass spoke in 1845. It is a...
Local Cultural Councils: Amplify Youth Voice in Your Work
05.01.2024 Jay Wong, Program Officer Local Cultural Council Program Dover Cultural Council tabling with youth member Antonio Saenz. The purpose of Mass Cultural Council’s Local Cultural Council Program is to provide access to cultural activities for all segments of...
Episode 383: Kevin Dawson, Aquatic Culture in Early America
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/383_Dawson_Recast.mp3 The Atlantic World has brought many disparate peoples together, which has caused a lot of ideas and cultures to mix. How did the Atlantic World bring so many different peoples and cultures together?...
$1.92M Awarded to Individuals to Equitably Advance Creative Expression Throughout MA
04.29.2024 Dan Blask, Program Manager Grants for Creative Individuals Karmimadeebora McMillan (Grantee ’24), Generations (2023), acrylic and collage on un-stretched canvas, 78×84 in. Mass Cultural Council believes that creativity is a vital part of a thriving society....
Mission Over Tradition
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations A few weeks ago, my pastor was speaking about the calling of the church and said it must value mission over tradition. If you have ever attended a business meeting at a small, older Baptist church, you can understand why...
Urgent: Ask Your Representative to Support America’s 250th
Dear Members and other friends of AASLH, I am reaching out today with an urgent request. Last week AASLH circulated an alert about the U.S. Senate. Today we need your help to ask your House member to prioritize America’s 250th anniversary in Congress’s appropriations...
Web Publishing as a Tool for the Raupp Museum’s Cultural Preservation and Community Engagement
By Haley Twist, CatalogIt Nestled in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, the Raupp Museum stands as a testament to the importance of preserving local history and making it accessible. With a commitment to empowering their community to participate in preservation and an...
Unexplored Topics in State and Local History
By Bruce W. Dearstyne The state and local history field continues to be exciting and innovative, with new ideas emerging all the time. The field is evolving and adjusting to keep up with advances in technology and changing areas of public interest. Sometimes, though,...
The Health of Our Volunteer Programs
By Alexandra Rasic, James N. Gamble Executive Director National Volunteer Appreciation Week is here! At The Gamble House, we’ll be celebrating our dedicated docents at a special sunset reception on Friday evening. Events like these are always a wonderful opportunity...
Reparative Reprocessing of Historic Church Records in Salem
Author: Samuel Edwards; MA SHRAB Archival Field Fellow My placement through the State Historic Records Advisory Board was with the Saint Peter/San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem. Founded in 1733, the church is one of the oldest in Salem, and one of the earliest...
Urgent: Contact Your Senators for America 250 Funding
Dear Colleague, I am reaching out today with an urgent request, one AASLH rarely makes. We need you to reach out to your Senators to help secure major, new federal funding for the work of history organizations. For the last several months, AASLH has met with many...
Westborough Center Pastimes – April 19, 2024
House Raising by William P. Chappel, 1870s (Metropolitan Art Museum: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10453) Raising Parties in Colonial Westborough Craft is a social act. We first learn a craft from people who are proficient at it, and as time goes on...
Clemente students visit MFA Boston for annual trek
In early April, students from the Clemente Course in the Humanities visited the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) for a day of art appreciation and community building. Students from Springfield, Holyoke, Worcester, Brockton, and New Bedford Clemente sites explored an...
Episode 382: Friederike Baer, Hessians in the American Revolutionary War
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/382_Baer.mp3 Within the Declaration of Independence, the founders of the United States present 27 grievances against King George III as they declare their reasons for why the thirteen British North American colonies sought...
A small, yet deceptively complicated collection: Processing multi-format, multi-generation family papers in Lincoln.
Author: Matthew Lawrence, Archival Field Fellow Lincoln Public Library, January 2024 Lincoln Public Library is located in the center of a proud rural community located roughly twenty miles west of Boston. Town records are housed in two locations: vital records are...