What: 14th Annual Mass History Conference
When: Monday, June 4, 2018 | 8:30 am – 5:15 pm
Where: Hogan Campus Center, College of Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Online registration is open.
Our history organizations face the task preserving and presenting “the” history of forever more rapidly changing communities and contexts. The 14th annual Mass History Conference offers peer sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities to explore and learn about new ways and new communities in public history, and the roles historical organizations do and can play to become part of the social dialogue: program diversity, collaborative approaches to exhibit and program building, finding common grounds between technology, art, and history to enrich all, a broad focus on the community of communities — the process of people coming together in one place as they move from town to town and around the world.
Hosted by the Mass History Alliance, an organization to support and advocate for all public history organizations and their work in Massachusetts.
Supported by Mass Humanities, Robert Forrant, Michael Potaski, University Products, New England Archivists, Massachusetts Historical Society, Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area, University of Massachusetts Amherst Program in Public History, Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board (MA SHRAB), University of Massachusetts Boston Public History and Archives Tracks, and the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston.
My brother and I had the unexpected pleasure of participating in the Mass Memories Road Show/Eastham.
What a wonderful opportunity to preserve our unique family history of growing up in a quintenessential Cape Cod cottage colony which our parents developed in the 40’s and 50’s. We no longer have to rely on photos and diaries, which so often get lost or overlooked, to preserve not only our own family history but also a very unique and important era of Cape Cod history.
Our sincere appreciation to UMass for this innovative way of preserving family history in real time and told by he people who lived it. The entire experience was professional, friendly and well done!