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Episode 378: Tara Bynum, Everyday Black Living in Early America
Episode 377: Ade Solanke, Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright
Episode 376: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons
Episode 375: Jordan E. Taylor, Misinformation Nation: Fake News in Early America
Episode 374: Stephen Kling, Jr., The American Revolutionary War in the West
Beyond the Commonwealth
Episode 393: Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden, Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic
Episode 392: Kathryn Gin Lum, Religion and Race in Early America
How Gen Z Wants to Celebrate America’s 250th
Explore Mobile and Gulf Coast History Through Books, Films, Podcasts, and Music
Episode 391: Katie Schinabeck, Government in Colonial Virginia
Governor Appoints Cultural Economy Advisory Council Members
09.20.2024 Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim DriscollExecutive Office of Economic Development Press Release Member of the Governor’s Cultural Economy Advisory Council at their inaugural meeting. Today, the Healey Driscoll Administration appointed members of...
YouthReach Awards of $1.87M to Support Creative Youth Development
09.20.2024 Erik Holmgren, Program Manager Creative Youth Development | YouthReach Boston Children’s Chorus singers perform at Symphony Hall for a sold-out crowd at their 21st Annual MLK Day Tribute Concert. Photo: Boston Children’s Chorus. “In an increasingly...
Westborough Center Pastimes – September 20, 2024
Westborough Chronotype – December 1, 1855, p. 4 Patent Medicines in Westborough When I was young, I became interested in patent medicines and medicine shows from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for a variety of reasons—one of which was finding in my local...
Grants for Creative Individuals: Apply by Oct 24
09.13.2024 Dan Blask, Program Manager Grants for Creative Individuals Felipe Ortiz (Grants for Creative Individuals recipient ’24), PACIFICO (2017), Acrylic on wood, 31″x32″ Mass Cultural Council believes that creativity is a vital part of a thriving society. We are...
Grant announcement: Apply for collection processing assistance and archival supply regrant – deadline Oct. 4, 2024
Institutional ‘Host’ Application for Archival Field Fellowship: Application Deadline: October 4, 2024, by noon, EST Through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory...
Episode 393: Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden, Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/393_Political_Civility.mp3 The Constitution is a document of “We the People.” The ways Americans have supported, debated, and interpreted the Constitution since 1787 have played a vital role in the rise of politics and...
Apply Now for Creative Projects for Schools
09.05.2024 Amy Chu, Program Officer Creative Projects for Schools | STARS Residencies Fourth graders at Saltonstall School learn about renewable energy by building a working 5-ft wind turbine as part of a residency with Change is Simple. Photo: Change is Simple Inc....
Opportunities & Resources for Orgs – Sept 24
09.04.2024 Mass Cultural Council Staff Opportunities & Resources Express Yourself’s 2024: EXYO Planet Performance at the Boch Center – Wang Theatre. Each month Mass Cultural Council shares a round-up of grants, trainings, technical assistance resources, and...
In conversation with Cheryll Toney Holley
If you ask Cheryll Toney Holley to introduce herself, she immediately mentions her four children and eight grandchildren, all of whom are local to the Worcester area. This is because intergenerational bonds are a central cultural value for Holley, who identifies as a...
Gloucester, Forget Me Not
By Brian Boyles This article was originally published in The Relentless Humanities, a newsletter written by Brian Boyles. Subscribe here. Vessels of Slavery is on display at the Cape Ann Museum’s CAM Green Campus through Sept. 1. The clatter of lines against a mast,...
Equity Progress Report (July-Aug ’24)
08.29.2024 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager Diversity Equity and Inclusion A regular report on our equity work Young woman performing at Elevated Thought’s gallery. Photo: Gretchen Ertl. Since 2021, with the launch of our first-ever Racial Equity Plan (and...
Building Internal Capacity to LEAD
08.27.2024 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager Diversity Equity and Inclusion Massachusetts attendees at 2024 LEAD Conference. Earlier this month, a handful of Mass Cultural Council staff attended the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD®)...
In Conversation with Jackie Jenkins-Scott
Jackie Jenkins-Scott believes that the humanities represent the “connective tissue” of our lived experience. A leadership consultant and past president of two higher education institutions, she works at the intersection of business strategy and transformational...
Episode 392: Kathryn Gin Lum, Religion and Race in Early America
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/392_Gin-Lum.mp3 What does history have to tell us about how we, as Americans, came to define people by their race–the visual ways we group people based on their skin color, facial features, hair texture, and ancestry?...
How Gen Z Wants to Celebrate America’s 250th
–By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO “The United States turns 250 years old in 2026. Gen Z will write its next chapter.” For all AASLH has done to encourage thoughtful planning for the nation’s 250th, we still have work to do to get younger people involved. So...