Conversations on the Commons: Neutrality and Engagement for Historical Organizations
« All Events October 21 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Neutrality and Engagement for Historical Organizations October 21, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Museum people are talking a lot about whether their organizations should be politically “neutral” in their presentation and...
Conversations on the Commons October 21: Neutrality and Engagement for Historical Organizations
Gloria Greis and Tom Putnam discuss how museums make programming decisions and they walk a line between engagement and “neutrality, hoping to be open for all
Announcing: History Studio on the Commons
Do you have something you would like to present? Skills to share or a project to show off? A film, lecture, or workshop you’d like to take public? The History Studio on the Commons is your studio space. Plan and propose your history-focused content, and the Mass History Commons team will handle the promo and logistics. You show up with your material, and we do the rest.
History Studio on the Commons: Screening and discussion of ‘Contradictory Place’
« All Events September 1 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ‘Contradictory Place’: Cotton Mills Alongside Anti-Slavery Efforts in Lowell Massachusetts A screening and discussion with film collaborator Professor Robert Forrant POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER Join us for a group screening...
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.