American Centuries: View from New England shares thousands of objects and documents from the collections of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA), the earliest museum in western Massachusetts. The website’s user-friendly format and interactive activities encourage users of all ages to explore centuries of American and millennia of Indigenous histories. Objects and documents from the Memorial Hall Museum and PVMA Library have been photographed or scanned at a high resolution, encouraging close looking and comparison. Accompanying interpretive text created by PVMA staff in consultation with nationally recognized scholars and K-12 educators provides important context for each item on American Centuries.

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Note to Educators: visit our For Educators page to learn more about how you and your students can use this website.

Funders

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s libraries and museums. We advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development. IMLS envisions a nation where individuals and communities have access to museums and libraries to learn from and be inspired by the trusted information, ideas, and stories they contain about our diverse natural and cultural heritage. To learn more, visit www.imls.gov and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. The views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Portions of this website has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.  Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

We are grateful for the generous support of our public and private funders who share an interest in the use of technology to share American history with public audiences, students, and educators. Visit our Funders & Credits page to view our funders.

We are also grateful to the members and donors of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts. The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association welcomes donations from individuals and corporations to support this web site project. Learn about Memberships and how to Join here.

Project Credits

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