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...
Keynote Highlight (Peek at the Program!)
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES -- March 25, 2021 16th Mass History Conference announcement - preview the program! The 16th Annual Massachusetts History Conference is only a few months away and the conference committee has been working hard to put together a program that reflects...
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.