Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage
by Samantha Pickering
Book banning is a growing issue in the United States, as narrow-minded people attempt to exclude certain titles from library shelves, an assault on which communities and stories are allowed to exist in public. This movement has …
by Sarah L. Leonard
Walking into The History Project, an LGBTQ+ community archives in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, one can’t help but notice the location. Their cozy fourth-floor space sits adjacent to Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library, imposing …
by Erin Kelley
Italy is home to many incredible museums and cultural heritage sites, some quite famous, others lesser known. One of these smaller sites, located in the city of Perugia, is the Moretti Caselli Stained Glass Museum. The outreach …
by David Donnan
The sun felt warm for what seemed like the first time since November as I power walked up the brick sidewalk to Boston’s Museum of …
by Noelle Stockwell
With the changing weather and blooming fall foliage, I love going to the state parks and forests controlled and maintained by Massachusetts’ Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). Looking at the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State …
by Katie Kerekes
Tucked off to the side of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, past the condos and tennis courts, is the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. This beautiful stone building is the former High Service Pumping Station, which pumped water from the …
by Mara Gregory
If you have ever secretly wanted to draw in a library book (or are actually guilty of doing so) #ColorOurCollections, an annual social media campaign hosted by the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Library, will …
by Klara Pokrzywa
The Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned was created as a response to the American Library Association’s report on book banning in 2021. That year saw the greatest number of book challenges and bans since the ALA began …
by Clark Geiling
Amidst the cobblestone streets and brownstones of Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood stands the Nichols House Museum, an impressive four-story brick estate designed by the architect Charles Bulfinch in 1804. Though the structure has existed since the early …
by Amanda Miano
Kathryn Kuntz always knew she wanted to work in history, but she did not feel 
suited to K-12 education which was the primary path for those attending Black Hills State University. People would ask her, “Well, what …