Watch: The Speech is the Star
To commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2024, we produced a series of short films that revisit the Mass Humanities archive. The Speech is the Star examines the explosion in popularity of the Reading Frederick Douglass Together program, from its first public reading in 2009 to the 60+ readings that took place in 2024. Douglass readings have become […]
The stories behind meaningful objects – Betsy More
Elizabeth (Betsy) More, program director at the Jewish Women’s Archive, explains how the first commercial edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, “exemplifies the power of coming together communally and collectively to tell our stories.” On October 24, we hosted a workshop in Boston at MassArt titled “The Future of Storytelling.” We invited grantees to bring in […]