The Mass. Memories Road Show (MMRS) at UMass Boston is an event-based public history project that digitizes family photos and memories shared by the people of Massachusetts. We do this by working with local communities to organize free public events where residents are invited to bring family photos to be scanned and included in …
Video oral histories with Japanese Americans who were students during World War II and their first-hand accounts of being incarcerated and leaving internment camps to attend college. These interviews also document the impact that these students’ wartime experiences had on their later commitments to certain causes and organizations such …
These eighteen drawings were created by Vietnamese children around 1966, as part of the American Friends Service Committee's resource materials. The drawings were submitted to a contest sponsored by artist Le van Khoa in connection with his "World of Children," a Saigon television program. Le van Khoa donated the pictures to the …
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These Finding Aids provide detailed information about our so-called 'physical collections' - that is, the actual letters, photographs, maps, organizational records, diaries, audiotapes, videotapes, etc., that are housed at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
All of the …
Dr. Mercedes Agulló y Cobo, Spanish historian and philologist, has served as director of the Museos Municipales de Madrid and over the course of her illustrious career has produced important scholarly reference works in the historiography of the book, painting, sculpture and theater. The University of Massachusetts Boston was granted …
A residential school for boys has been located on Thompson's Island since 1835 when the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys and the Boston Farm School Society merged and moved to the Island as the Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, popularly called the Boston Farm School. In 1907 its name was changed to the Farm and …
The Boston Normal School was designed to train women teachers for the Boston Public Schools and became a separate entity when it moved from Girls’ High to the top floors of the Rice School in 1876. The school eventually moved into a new building at 625 Huntington Avenue, built in 1906. The Boston Normal was renamed Boston Teachers …
In 1986 Dr. Rita Arditti, an Argentinean college professor living in the United States, learned about the work of the Association of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina while reading Botín de Guerra by Julio E. Nosiglia (Buenos Aires: Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, 1985). Shortly thereafter she met Grandmothers Chicha Mariani …
The University of Massachusetts Boston Archives and Special Collections has acquired the historical organizational records of the Catholic Association of Foresters, thanks to the efforts of members of The Irish Ancestral Research Association, which served as custodian of this historic collection from 2005 - 2011.
The Massachusetts …
Welcome to the Open Archives Digital Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston's Joseph P. Healey Library!
UMass Boston's Archives and Special Collections department collects materials that reflect the university's urban mission and strong support of community service, notably in collections of records of urban planning, social action, alternative movements, community organizations and local history related to neighboring communities including the Boston Harbor Islands.
We invite you to explore the Department's many collections, activities and resources here in the Open Archives: The Digital Collections, and through postings of events, project and activities on our blog, Open Archives: The Hub, and through the Massachusetts Studies social network (MA Studies Network).
Your participation and feedback in all of these are welcome!
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