by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello | Nov 26, 2011 | The Public Humanist
On the last Saturday in October with brilliant blue skies overhead my son, husband and I went down to the Occupy Boston site at Dewey Square to meet a friend of a friend who is serving there with a group of Occupy chaplains. We wanted to get a better sense of the...
by Mary Wilson | Nov 30, 2011 | The Public Humanist
According to Israel’s prime minister, the Arab spring is moving Arab countries “not forward, but backward.” It is an “Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave.”...
by Wen-ti Tsen | Dec 5, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Li Tieshan lived in a half-finished basement space in a two-story Cape house in a quiet neighborhood, in a suburban city south of Boston. He is a 65-year old undocumented worker from Tianjin, a large industrial city in northern China, who came to the U.S. nine years...
by Brendan Tapley | Dec 8, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Mass Humanities staff and board came up with a list of classics to savor over the long winter. Enjoy! 1) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy “It seems semi-obnoxious to recommend a book of this length and commitment, but it’s been the most important reading...
by Nancy Eng | Dec 12, 2011 | The Public Humanist
In June 2011, Mass Humanities awarded a grant to the Chinese Historical Society of New England, located in Boston’s Chinatown, for public history events connected to the Society’s 20th anniversary. Project organizers Nancy Eng (Executive Director of...
