This week we are doing something a little different here on Fieldstone Common. We are going on-site to the 2014 Massachusetts History Conference which was themed “Never Done! Interpreting the History of Women at Work in Massachusetts.”

We’ll hear from a number of the speakers at the conference including keynote speaker Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

The Massachusetts History Conference was held June 2, 2014 on the Campus of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Both presenters and attendees at the conference are featured in this episode, including two previous Fieldstone Common Guests Marla Miller and Michelle Marchetti Coughlin.

Featured guests in this broadcast include:

• Pleun Bouricius, Mass Humanities


• Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Curator of Manuscripts, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University


• Jenny O’Neill, Director, Westport, Massachusetts Historical Society


• Michelle Marchetti Coughlin, Author


• Joanne Riley, University Archivist, UMass Boston


• David Glassberg, Professor, Public History Dept., UMass Amherst


• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Professor, Harvard University

Links mentioned during the interview:

• Mass History Conference Annual Conference home page


• “Never Done! Interpreting the History of Women at Work in Massachusetts” – the 2014 Mass History Conference website


• Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University


• Westport, Massachusetts Historical Society


• Handy House, Westport, Massachusetts


• Michelle Marchetti Coughlin website


• Mass Memories Road Show website


• The Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst


• Marla Miller on Fieldstone Common discussing her book Betsy Ross


• Marla Miller on Fieldstone Common discussing her book Rebecca Dickinson
  
  


• Michelle Marchetti Coughlin on Fieldstone Common discussing her book One Colonial Woman’s World


• Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You, FREE EdX course by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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