Mass Humanities supports programs that use history, literature, philosophy, and the other humanities disciplines to enhance and improve civic life throughout Massachusetts.
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This piece is a continuation, of sorts, of an earlier article describing the process of the 100 Faces of War Experience project...
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Listen to Rachel Maddow's talk on "Life During Wartime" at Mass Humanities' benefit dinner on November 7, 2009.
I thought I’d already heard it all, so I was surprised at how suddenly raw I felt, reading what one vocational-technical high school student had written on a yellow sticky note: “Your [sic] never going to make it.” I guessed that she was quoting the words of her shop teacher. I’d ...
This essay addresses working and economic conditions in Holyoke during the 1870s and 1880s as the city acquired industrial stature and some paper and textile workers attempted to organize...
Pleun Bouricius David Tebaldi recommends: the history guys
BackStory with the American History Guys ® | Public radio that explores the historical context of to
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As temperatures drop and the policy debate about climate change heats up, this January the History Guys will explore how Americans have reaped the benefits — and faced the consequences of — climate control.
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a memorial service for Sokhorn Sem, the mother of one of the subjects of my film Monkey Dance. The service was held at the Khmer Buddhist Temple in Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Wat Triratanaram)...
William Ricardo and I are looking forward to Saturday's event!
As a child of the 1970s, like many in my generation, I have grown up somewhat in the political shadow of the decade before me...
Pleun Bouricius David Tebaldi Recommends: "As you may know, Diane Ravitch is a prominent historian of education and cultural critic who served as Assistant Secretary of Education under both George I and Bill Clinton."
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THE LATEST fad to sweep K-12 education is called “21st-Century Skills.’’ States - including Massachusetts - are adding them to their learning standards, with the expectation that students ...
Adam James Bright
DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE’S CONVERSATIONS is an ongoing series that engages a diverse community of artists, audiences and presenters for discussions in an intimate, stimulating environment. This season includes a wide array of topics, from an inter-disciplinary discussion on theatre training to an investigation of the cultur...al ramifications of genocide. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19
convened by Double Edge with Philip Arnoult in conjunction with the Garden of Intimacy and Desire Cycle
Location:Double Edge Theatre - the Farm
Time:11:00AM Sunday, November 1st
Not so long ago, I picked up a copy of Philip Gura's new book on Transcendentalism -- that brief flowering of the New England mind -- and it started me thinking again about that most American tension, how self and society articulate...
Not so long ago, I picked up a copy of Philip Gura's new book on Transcendentalism -- that brief flowering of the New England mind -- and it started me thinking again about that most American tension, how self and society articulate...
