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Beyond the Commonwealth
Announcing the AASLH 2023 Leadership in History Award Winners
Harrison Township Historical Society Recognized with AASLH 2023 Albert B. Corey Award
Voting in the 2023 AASLH Council Election is Open
2023 National Visitation Report of History Organizations Now Available
See Who’s Speaking at This Year’s History Leadership Institute Seminar
Episode 350: Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/350_Schiff.mp3 Before the American Revolution became a war and a fight for independence, the Revolution was a movement and protest for more local control of government. So how did the American Revolution get started?...
The Smithsonian Comes to Turner Falls
Museum on Main Street “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” makes stop at Great Falls Discovery Center Originally known as Peskeompskut, the area of Turner Falls was once inhabited by the Pocumtuck Tribe and later became one of five villages established along the...
Mass Cultural Council Approves Two New Cultural Districts on Cape Cod
01.26.2023 Bethann Steiner, Public Affairs Director Cultural Districts | Press Release Harwich Center Cultural District and Harwich Port Cultural District authorized to join vibrant network of 53 state-designated cultural districts across the Commonwealth. Street sign...
Cultural Organizations Awarded $475,000 to Innovate Around Access
01.25.2023 Charles G. Baldwin, Program Officer Innovation Fund | UP Designation This funding looks to go beyond ADA compliance to inspire direct actions and fresh ideas Still from a performance of Na Laga’at “Not by Bread Alone” The Universal Participation (UP)...
Docents as Museum Professionals: Lessons from the Amory Regional Museum
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Westborough Center Pastimes – January 20, 2023
Ice Age Animals – Cleveland Museum of Natural History This essay is part of a new Westborough History Connections series called, “A Meeting of Two Cultures: Native Americans and Early European Settlers in Westborough.” Click here to start at the beginning of the...
Get to Know Boise’s Rich History with These Books and Documentaries
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations The 2023 AASLH Annual Conference will be held in Boise, Idaho, on September 6-9. The theme for the conference is I, Too, Am America. This theme will challenge attendees to think about what “We the People” really meant in...
Help Your Organization and the Field: Respond to the 2023 National Visitor Survey
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Episode 349: The Women Behind Benjamin Franklin
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/349_Stuart.mp3 There are a lot of books about Benjamin Franklin. They tell us about his youth and accomplishments in business, politics, and diplomacy. They tell us about his serious interest in electricity and...
$1.4M Awarded to Creative Learning School Residencies
01.13.2023 Diane Daily, Program Manager STARS Residencies STARS Residency with Science & Engineering Elementary Development (SEED) at South Elementary School in Stoughton. Supporting creative learning in Massachusetts schools continues to be a priority for Mass...
Famous Women of Westborough Across the Centuries
by Local Historian Kristina Nilson Allen Note: The following group of essays is taken from Kristina Nilson Allen’s Westborough Historical Society program held on January 9, 2023. You can view her talk here:...
The Complexity and Joy of Photo Archiving: Historic Northampton’s Archival Field Fellowship
The Archival Field Fellowship is a grant offered by the Roving Archivist Program. The Fellowships increase hands-on assistance to Massachusetts repositories and provide emerging archivists with professional experience and mentorship. In 2022-2023, six institutions...
Impact of the Cultural Facilities Fund 2022
01.11.2023 Miranda Cook, Program Officer Mass Cultural Facilities Fund The 2022 Annual Report for the Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) is now available, highlighting the investment of $14 million into Massachusetts’ cultural infrastructure. In the past year, 127 grants...
$750,000 Granted to 50 State-Designated Cultural Districts
01.06.2023 Carolyn Cole, Program Officer Cultural Districts Flashmob in Williamstown Cultural District A few years back, I was running a state-designated Cultural District with a budget of only $800 one year. Our city was contemplating receivership. Local funding was...
Program Planning and Proper Names
By Bethany L Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations Recently, I was reading Christianity Today and one of its articles made me think about the way history organizations (including AASLH) plan public programs. The author said churches should plan their outreach using...
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