The Amherst History Museum opened in 1916 and is governed by the Amherst Historical Society, which was founded in 1899. Housed in the 1750-era Simeon Strong House, the Amherst History Museum takes visitors on a journey from the town’s colonial past, through its industrial age and into the computer-driven present. The Museum is filled with […]
Town: Amherst
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives of the UMass Amherst Libraries (SCUA) collects and preserves textual, visual, auditory, and digital materials of enduring value and makes them available to researchers, regardless of affiliation at no charge. SCUA’s collections are rich and deeply interrelated, documenting four areas of historic and cultural interest: the history […]
