2021 Mass History Conference: What to do with history?
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES -- April 28, 2021 Virtual networking continues throughout the month of June! Join colleagues and peers from around the Commonwealth for lively conversations at Cafes on the Commons on three consecutive Fridays from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. These...
2021 Mass History Conference Session: Exploring Cultural Heritage and Community
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES -- April 14, 2021 Session Focus: Curating Marginalized Heritage/Indigenous History/Finding Community through History How does building community facilitate the telling of fuller, more expansive histories? How can we overcome the challenges that...
Mass History Conference Registration Is Open!
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES -- April 20, 2021 MASS HISTORY CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN! We invite you to join us online Monday June 7, 2021 for History: A Massachusetts Community Activity. We’ll explore how historical organizations share authority they once held as a...
2021 Mass History Conference – Unceasing Access
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES -- April 14, 2021 Massachusetts History Conference Session Sneak Peak: UNCEASING ACCESS: RESEARCH AND COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT DURING COVID-19 The shut-down beginning in March 2020 forced libraries and archives to re-think how to best serve their...
About Publick Occurences, the MHA newsletter
Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick was the first multi-page newspaper published in the Americas, Boston, September 25, 1690. It was shut down immediately by the government. We’ll take that as a lesson. Image courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.