by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Melissa M. Cybulski is a local historian, museum guide, and author based in Western Massachusetts. As Vice-President of the Longmeadow Historical Society, she has done extensive research, writing, and presenting on a variety of topics of import to her community’s...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Dan Coonan (dancoonanauthor.com) has been a leader in the field of intercollegiate athletics for over twenty years. He took over as Commissioner of the ECAC eight years ago after serving for a dozen years as Athletic Director at Santa Clara University. He has...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Charles Bahne“Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…” On the eighteenth of April in 1775, Paul Revere set out on a nighttime journey that would become legend. Eighty-five years later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow stood at his...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Edward F. O’KeefeTheodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It’s little surprise he’d be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. His...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Heather S. Cole, MA, (heatherscole.com) is a writer and public historian living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She has a master’s degree in history from Salem State University and has worked in a variety of museums and archives, including at the Woodrow Wilson...
