With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the 2025 Summer Institute is designed to give 25 participants an immersive and experiential understanding of Native American history and contemporary realities in the Dawnland, currently called New England.
MHS Event | Racial Histories of Higher Education in New England: A Symposium Co-Hosted by The New England Quarterly on 9/27/24
As battles have raged over the meaning and fate of Confederate monuments across the south, colleges and universities in New England, generally regarded as liberal bastions, have also been engaged in a deep and consequential reckoning with aspects of their history and ongoing practices that rest on the legacies of slave trade and settler colonialism. This event will highlight the work of a diverse range of historians, as well as university archivists and museum professionals, discussing a range of issues from the Colonial period to the present that shape the industry, experience, and cultures of higher education.
Revolutionary Spaces Events: “Bounty” film on Indigenous resilience showing daily at the Old State House
Hosted by Revolutionary Spaces in collaboration with Upstander Project Showing daily at the Old State House starting July 1 GET TICKETS Bounty captures Penobscot families reading and reacting to bounty proclamations that incentivized the scalping of Indigenous people. Filmed in the Old State House, where many of these laws were signed, the film confronts the brutal … Continue reading Revolutionary Spaces Events: “Bounty” film on Indigenous resilience showing daily at the Old State House
Resource | Documentation and Decolonisation by Ananda Rutherford
"What approaches can be employed to engage critically with museum documentation and object records, in order to tackle structural bias and the hegemony of traditional western, colonial, heteronormative, ableist norms of knowledge production and practice?" In this blog post, Ananda Rutherford of Museums Data Laundry offers these and other insightful questions that can help guide … Continue reading Resource | Documentation and Decolonisation by Ananda Rutherford