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Travel the backroads of almost anywhere in Massachusetts and you’ll see once-handsome country homes, neglected and crumbling. Faltering reminders of a simpler time, having outlived generations, but doomed to demolition by neglect. Occasionally, a town or wealthy...
Conversations on the Commons: Black Lives Matter protests and history organizations
In many towns, people are protesting police brutality against Black Americans. What do history organizations do? Join a conversation!
Launch of the Mass History Commons
Let’s celebrate the New Mass History Commons website for all history organizations. Join us for a tour of the new website.
Conversations on the Commons: Reopening, engaging, or both?
Bring your tea, and let’s talk over what’s happening: who is opening, who is putting work into distance engagement or their collections, and how is it going? Join Penni Martorell and Gloria Greis…
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.