Help us save our history
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES -- November 12, 2020 The Massachusetts history community is in peril. On top of a long-standing lack of resources available to this sector and a decline in public interest in history, the COVID-19 epidemic has forced the closure of many...
History Funding from Local Cultural Councils
Join us for a conversation on cultural councils and their preferences. Plus, we’ll be workshopping applications! Special guest: Lisa Simmons, Mass Cultural Council.
Archiving Your Gigabytes: Preserving COVID-19 and other digital collections
How on earth are we going to preserve all those digital files in the long run? Can we afford to? Join Veronica Martzahl from the Mass Archives and other smart cookies for an informal conversation to explore how we can move forward with our Gigabytes.
Civics, Politics, and History Organizations: History as neutral ground?
In many towns, people are protesting police brutality against Black Americans. What do history organizations do? Join a conversation!
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.
Contributions
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Please make out your check to the Massachusetts History Alliance and send it to:
Jenna Ware, Treasurer, Mass History Alliance
c/o Earl Taylor,
123 Ashmont Street
Dorchester, MA, 02124
Thank you!