HISTORY

"We're Still Here," depicting Native Americans who live in western Massachusetts, is a rare contemporary installation in the Springfield Science Museum's old Native American Hall. But the effort has sparked some backlash.

After decades of requests from the Oglala Lakota, the Barre Museum Association returned more than 100 items to tribal leaders. Some of the objects are believed to come from the bodies of those massacred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.

Students and staff at Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts, celebrated the Mexican tradition of Día de Los Muertos, setting up an alter with photos of loved ones who've died.

New England's old cemeteries hold a lot of information about the religious and cultural life of people who lived long ago. Author John G. S. Hanson talks about life, death and eternity contained in the stones in Western Mass.

A new report documents how economically widespread and profitable the Transatlantic Slave Trade was in Connecticut — for farmers and for the state’s insurance companies.

Fifty lawn signs, banners and a booklet describing Mohican history in Williamstown, Massachusetts, recognize the displacement of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, who now live on a reservation in Wisconsin.

The state of Massachusetts has a long list of official symbols, from baked goods to animals and several rocks. But — so far — the state does not have an official sedimentary structure. That could change with the efforts of an enthusiastic geologist.

Steve Waksman, a Smith Colllege professor, spent years researching and writing "Live Music in America: From Jenny Lind to Beyoncé."

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, opened its doors to the public Tuesday for the first time in more than two years, and the day's dozen group tours were sold out.

"Dear Mister Ward" is a collection of unearthed letters from almost 100 years ago, written to the complaint department of Montgomery Ward, a full-service mail-order catalog, the Amazon of its time. They recently were read aloud by actors at a theater in western Massachusetts.