by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 22, 2024 | History News
Sarah KeyesFrom the Publisher: In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 21, 2024 | History News
Tina CassidyFrom the Publisher: Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC, in March of 1913, a day before he is set to take the presidential oath of office. He is surprised by the modest turnout. The crowds and reporters are blocks away from Union Station, watching a...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 14, 2024 | History News
Jonathan W. WhiteBook 1: Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 1, 2024 | History News
Pamela D. TolerFrom the Publisher The Chicago Tribune’s Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Sigrid Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters, male or female, to warn...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jul 22, 2024 | History News
Marion GibsonFrom the publisher: A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking...
