Conversations on the Commons: Oh Snap! Photography in Collections
Friday, December 8, 2023, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. A Conversation on the Commons featuring Ron Polito (UMass Boston) and Martha Mahard (Simmons University) They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if it has no date, place, or known face? Panelists Martha Mahard...
History Studio: Has Anyone Seen $500 Million in Missing Art?
Friday, December 1, 2023, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. A History Studio featuring Bob Ainsworth, historical fiction author St. Patrick's Day, 1990. Two men dressed as Boston cops entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, stayed for about 90 minutes, and left with 13 pieces of...
Conversations on the Commons: The Ins and Outs of AI for Historical Organizations
Friday, November 17, 2023, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. A Conversation on the Commons featuring Joanne Riley (UMass Boston) and Jane Stimpson (Massachusetts Library System) Heads-up - here comes Artificial Intelligence! How can generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Bard, Poe,...
July 27, 2023: Mass History Alliance Annual Meeting and Election
The Annual meeting of the Massachusetts History Alliance will be held online on July 18th, register now!
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.
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