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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- 1974
I am in the Middle East for some research, and specifically in Qatar, where I lived a few years ago. With some time this morning because of a cancelled appointment, I walked over to the country’s major annual book fair. ...
Pleun Yest another great Mass Humanities sponsored program
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Underground Railway Theater, in collaboration with The Providence Black Repertory Company, stages the astonishing East Coast Premiere of one woman's resistance to oppression.To escape a predatory master, Harriet Jacobs hid in a crawlspace for seven years beforeeventually escaping to Cambridge, MA. ....
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that many of the readers of "The Public Humanist" delight, as I do, in the process of drawing our own conclusions about the past based on primary source artifacts...
Larry Ragland, an unemployed health insurance executive from Methuen, MA., was mesmerized by the recent United Nations Climate Change talks in Copenhagen (COP-15), eager to see the nations work out a deal to address global warming...
"Our earth is like a patient with a fever...
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Ever long for a traditional New England Christmas? Be careful what you wish for.
Essay published in "The Boston Globe," written by a former board member of the Mass Humanities.
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AS THE HOLIDAY season rolls around, it has become commonplace to yearn for the more authentic Christmases of yesteryear, unsullied by crass commercialism or political correctness - a brief season for the values of religion and family to eclipse those of materialism and controversy.
I have not always been interested in biographies. As a curator and historian, I look at biographies as pieces of the puzzle: the more biographies I read on a certain topic, the more I understand about that topic...
I loved books as a kid. But one of the strange things about loving books as I did is that I somehow managed to not read most of the grade school kid classics...
1. Festival OverviewUNESCO declared 2009 “The Year of Grotowski” in honor of the 10th anniversary of the death of Jerzy Grotowski, whom many consider to have been the most important theater director of the 20th century. T...
Mass Humanities Hot off the electronic presses...Mass Humanities eNews.
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November 7th Recap; 2010 Mass History Conference; Lit & Med to Open at the Northampton VA; Scenes from a Parish; Literature & Medicine Facilitator Honored; Summer Seminar on Punishment, Politics, and Culture; Big Read Grants; The Public Humanist; Recent Grants
Pleun A historic and current look at food production -- funded by Mass Humanities and Sea Change Radio
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The second episode of our Back To The Future series looks at the revival of a locally based food system in western Massachusetts. We talk with Margaret Christie of CISA (Community In Support of Agriculture), ...
It’s all about context. An amazing portrait is now on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., as one of 49 finalists for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The painting depicts Rick Yarosh from the waist up. Yarosh wears a gray Army T-shirt. ...
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 ...
