2019 Mass History Conference

Empowering Our Communities through History

16th Annual MA History Conference
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester
Monday, June 24, 2019, 8:30 am-4:00 pm
The conference will focus on empowering our communities and organizations in preserving and telling the many stories of the towns and people of Massachusetts.
The democratizing trends of the digital age are energizing our historical organizations by opening communication channels and creating new possibilities for collaborative work. These tools kindle a widespread interest in local history and allow for innovative approaches to the work local historians already do: in-person engagement with community members, collecting and sharing everyone’s stories, and finding new roles for historical organizations in contemporary life. With the tools come responsibilities: less top-down history, more involvement of the public, collaborations with new (types of) allied organizations, checking out how our collections were created — where did the items come from, who collected them, should we tell their story anew or, in some instances, return the items?
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Empowering Our Communities through History

 
Speaker bio picAll taken together, this is a heady moment in which options and opportunities abound if we’re willing to be part of the change.
Keynote speaker Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, President and CEO of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, will inspire us to take advantage of the many opportunities and new insights. A passionate advocate for vibrant small, local museums, Cinnamon co-leads the Abbe Museum’s effort to ensure collaboration and cooperation with Wabanaki people, and is co-editor of the Small Museum Toolkit and founding chair of the AASLH Small Museums Committee.
The Conference is shaping up to be one of the most informative to date. It will feature organizations and people doing inspiring and innovative work. Learn from groundbreaking steps some groups are taking to work with the community, listen to organizations that have developed an approach to local history that is amazingly successful. Find out about ways to tackle the mountain of collection work that many volunteer organizations struggle with. Hear about the new African-American History Trail across the Commonwealth, develop a skill in creating book boxes for your archive, find ways to research Native American history in your area, see how others have engaged large groups of people from the community, done amazingly successful fundraising with a house tour. You’ll be hard pressed to choose among the sessions! Registration will open on April 15th, right here.
 
Plan to join us on Monday, June 24, 2019 to network, listen, and learn with more than 200 of your colleagues from throughout MA.
 
 
The 2019 Mass History Conference is jointly presented by Mass Humanities and the Massachusetts History Alliance.
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