Past Grants Awarded

Digital resources that will share humanities content from the landmark exhibition Titian Reunited: Women, Myth, and Power via the Gardner website and social media.

An online virtual tour of 5 exhibits presented by Westford Academy Museum club members (students from the local public high school) presenting virtual tours to third graders.

A Community Curator Fellow will oversee virtual community outreach with Boston’s Black LGBTQ community. The fellow will hold Zoom-based focus groups, solicit feedback and submissions to a timeline of Black LGBTQ history, and create a guide for undertaking community outreach activities remotely.

Implementing the digital exhibition of a program celebrating the culture and heritage of the long-standing Massachusetts commercial fishing industry, highlighting women both locally and abroad.

Interactive, multi-sensory musical workshops for audiences who are blind or visually impaired. Teaching artists will develop remote, 90-minute interactive lecture discussions before each of our monthly encore viewings of past productions online, with a focus on interpretation and appreciation for each new opera we make available to stream on demand.

The Digital Accessibility for Historic Photos and Documents will digitize and publish the Historical Society's collection of more than 25,000 photos and digital preservation of history texts by mid-20th century FHS Director Librarians Barbara Cushing Crocker and Eleanora West.

A webinar series highlighting historically significant artistic relationships between artists from communities that have experienced systemic inequities in the Pioneer Valley.

The NHS will create and deliver four digital learning modules that will help teachers meet third grade curricular standards and inspire connections to local history among some of Natick's youngest residents.

Adding WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility to a new website, and an education portal for teachers and students using humanities materials related to diversity, equity, inclusion and justice from our collection and archives.

Taking the Classroom to the Streets uses large-scale works of public art in Lynn as the foundation for an innovative, cross-curricular educational experience for Lynn youth, including a coded access website to augment classroom learning so that students can digitally interact with the public art, and virtual reality goggles and stipends for artists to explain the cultural significance behind their work.

The 2021 Virtual Humanities Program includes live zoom events and video production of “Voices from Somerville” online series, “Faith in a City” event, and online events related to our exhibition, “Penny Chronicles and the Stories They Tell.”

A natural and cultural history video project highlighting the ecology and cultural history of the land at Tamarack Hollow.

A dedicated website to host creative & critical responses to historical research focusing on nearby, hidden, & personal histories of participants in Greenfield and nearby towns.

Supporting laptop distribution to youth participants who lack the technology to participate in online programming as part of the the Violence is Not Normal project.

To virtually present the 2021 Juneteenth Festival, providing our audiences with a virtual option, particularly the elderly and disabled, for future Festivals.

The Virtual Naumkeag Settlers to Salem Shippers education program will be a virtual education program available for students in grades 2-5 learning about colonial life.

Developing and implementing a vibrant digital volunteer program at Hatfield Historical Society, including Humanities input, staff and volunteer training, and the planning and creation of digital platforms to engage volunteers both now, during the COVID pandemic, and in the future.

An online exhibit on the role of Thomas Reynolds, head gardener and estate superintendent, in the creation of Edith Wharton’s acclaimed gardens.

A virtual tour of some of the contents, history and families involved with the Shaw Hudson House, with special consideration given to the 1850's office of Dr. Samuel Shaw, a completely intact medical office, with medical equipment and books.

A virtual exhibition of the upcoming show Many Trails Muhheconeok: The people of the waters that never stand still. A digital platform will enhance the narrative of the exhibition through digital representation of the objects and space on the explore.berkshiremuseum.org website and expands the audience to serve those who are unable to visit the exhibition in person.

An online virtual tour of Old North Church and accompanying enrichment materials designed for middle and high school classrooms.

Two online exhibits and accompanying gallery talks about the history of the Black community of abolitionists and formerly enslaved in Florence, Northampton, Massachusetts in the two decades before the Civil War.

The Early Stages Conversation Series showcases writers, historians, poets, thinkers, scientists, and more in hybrid events, and there will be a web-based archive of the series.

Improve the Museum's virtual lecture experience with video editing, upgraded streaming capabilities and equipment purchases.

An upgrade and redesign for the museum's website, including migration of the website to Wordpress and support the addition of additional content.

Technology to stream, broadcast and video record programs in the Calvin Coolidge Museum for audiences who can’t or prefer not to attend in person.

"Sharing Our Stories: An Interactive, Digital Exploration of Our Lives" is a humanities program for 30 adult literacy students that includes a free, open to the public, online reading and discussion forum that features local authors.

An online database documenting the free and enslaved People of Color in Marblehead from the 17th century through the 19th century. A robust database system into which documentary evidence and data can be inputted and the public can freely access and search via the Museum’s website.

Implementing the digital exhibition of a program celebrating the culture and heritage of the long-standing Massachusetts commercial fishing industry, highlighting women both locally and abroad.

The virtual American Voice in Poetry and Song project explores the American Voice through literature, poetry, spoken word, music, and historical storytelling, featuring Chicago-Renaissance composers Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, poets Langston Hughes, Myrtle Vorst Sheppard, Maria Howard Weedun, and National Slam Poetry Champion Regie Gibson, and writer Charles Coe.

An online program on U.S. fascism from the 1930s until today, and how that threat motivated activists and writers to create cultural and political works to counter it. The program will include NAASR's personal archives of Avedis Derounian, aka John Roy Carlson, who infiltrated the Nazi underground and wrote “Under Cover."

The first online web tour of the Emily Dickinson Museum.

A virtual experience of our program, Conference of the Birds.

A project to make improvements to ensure that the website, www.paulreverehouse.org, meets WCAG standards, in particular in sections where there is new content.

A bilingual video project aimed at capturing the Lawrence history knowledge held by staff, local historians, and scholars, but not yet digitally documented.

An outdoor garden exhibit highlighting our region's horticultural past, present, and future.

To hire a professional web designer who can train AHS staff and volunteers, and renovate the AHS website so that it can be used as a digital platform to expand public access to AHS local history resources.

The Society will streamline brochures of self-guided architectural walking tours of six key districts in New Bedford to create mobile application of the tours of the city's historic neighborhoods.

Phase II of an online virtual tour program about Ayer's historic Sandy Pond Schoolhouse, a National Register of Historic Places site, and Ayer's oldest public building.

For the creation of interactive story maps of two recent Pao Arts Center projects, Inside Chinatown and Love Letters, that will be featured on the Pao Arts Center website.