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“Save Our History!” Collaborating to Preserve the Past at UMass Boston
2015
Sparked by the 50th anniversary of the founding of the University of Massachusetts Boston in June 1964, University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) staff in the Joseph P. Healey Library collaborated with departments across campus to carry out a wide range of initiatives, all focused on locating, accessioning, preserving, and sharing the physical evidence of the university's history. This poster outlines the various collecting activities, outreach methods, digitization projects, and dogged detective work that resulted in the addition of more than 2,500 linear feet of unique historic materials to the University Archives, as well as a number of well-received public events and exhibitions.
Historical Archaeology, 2019
The recent history of western Massachusetts was shaped by a set of processes familiar in post-Columbian North America, including colonization, revolutionary repositioning in the Atlantic and world system, industrialization and deindustrialization, struggles for racial emancipation and gender and sexual equality, and the emergence of cultural reproduction to supplement, and increasingly to replace, the loss of industrial work. The particular political, economic, social, ideological, and ecological contexts of western Massachusetts are presented to provide background for the finergrained studies in the articles that follow.
Blog Posting - MHS - Time & Demise: Document Descriptions at the Massachusetts Historical Society
W. Mellon short-term research fellow at the MHS Time is the historian's obsession. Wasting time is the academic's demise. For a cultural historian, the archive can often seem like the proverbial haystack. Because the focus of cultural research is frequently upon speci c and often obscure topics rather than narrative or quantitative history, the manuscript Address 1154 Boylston Street (directions)
University of New Hampshire Renaissance in Action
2020
Hampshire (UNH) is a public flagship, land sea and space grant, Carnegie-classed "Research High" institution of about 13,000 undergraduates and 2,400 graduate students in Durham, on the New Hampshire seacoast. 1 UNH students come from all fifty states and seventy countries. About 44 percent are from New Hampshire, 2 and many are first-generation students. 3 Nearly all first-year students and 56 percent of undergraduates live on campus, but much off-campus housing is in Durham, and students walk, skateboard, or moped to class; others take transportation from nearby communities. UNH has fewer than 1,000 international students, and fewer than 2,300 who list an ethnicity other than "White non-Hispanic. " 4 In this regard, UNH's population resembles that of many other public institutions in northern New England. Besides eleven of UNH's thirteen colleges and schools, the Durham campus houses the main Dimond Library and three branch libraries supporting STEM fields. In this chapter, the library means the Durham campus libraries collectively. 5 While the library's information literacy (IL) program aspires to address the lifelong learning needs of the community broadly, in practice more emphasis is placed on undergraduate support, specifically for first-year students, and secondarily on those involved in research at all levels. 6
Joseph C. Lincoln's Presentation of Cape Cod
2004
Joseph C. Lincoln's Cape Cod has stirred readers' imaginations for more than a century. His quaint villages, peopled with admirable and lovable folks, serve as attractive havens. Through his books and stories one has the option of escaping to Harniss, Ostable, Bayport, Trumet, Denboro, and other communities where adversity is overcome and romance is requited. These towns, appearing only in the pages of Lincoln's fiction, are Cape Cod's own Brigadoons; they are alternative lands where fantasy obscures reality.