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Conversations on the Commons: Rev(ving) Up History: Promoting Tourism for the Big Anniversary

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 20, 2024 | Conversations on the Commons Archive, Publick Occurences

Friday, January 10, 2025, 12:00-1:30 p.m. A Conversation on the Commons featuring Sheila Green of the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism and Jonathan Lane of Rev250 America’s Semiquincentennial is just around the corner and Massachusetts is preparing for two...
Paul Sparrow — Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy

Paul Sparrow — Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 20, 2024 | History News

Paul SparrowFrom the Publisher: A powerful new work of history that brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life as he fought to transform America from an isolationist bystander into the world’s first superpower. “In today’s troubled times, with...
Sharon McMahon — The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Sharon McMahon — The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 11, 2024 | History News

Sharon McMahonFrom the Publisher: In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the...
Sonia Anderson — Battle of Dunkirk: From Disaster to Triumph

Sonia Anderson — Battle of Dunkirk: From Disaster to Triumph

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Nov 25, 2024 | History News

Sonia AndersonThe events that unfolded in the Battle of Dunkirk remain one of the greatest stories in human history. In May 1940, overpowered by the Nazis in mainland Europe, over half a million British and French soldiers faced annihilation and were forced to retreat...
Nathaniel Parry — Samuel Adams and the Vagabond Henry Tufts

Nathaniel Parry — Samuel Adams and the Vagabond Henry Tufts

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Nov 12, 2024 | History News

Nathaniel ParryFrom the Publisher: One a revolutionary leader and the other a vagabond who deserted from the Continental Army, Samuel Adams and Henry Tufts appear opposites, yet they were two sides of the same coin. While one devoted his life to overthrowing British...
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