by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Lori Rogers-Stokes, PhD, (lori.stokes@comcast.net | LinkedIn) is an independent scholar, public historian, and contributing editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project making thousands of pages of colonial-era Congregational church...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Christiana Boehmer (antislaveryinessexcounty.substack.com) is an independent historian from Andover, Massachusetts, who writes about the antislavery movement in Essex County, Massachusetts, from 1760-1860. She earned graduate degrees in education and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Susan Weaver JohnsonBefore the attack on Pearl Harbor, a famous Hollywood agent and an exceptional test pilot teamed to create a primary flight school in the Arizona desert. Overseen by the US Army Air Corps, it was known as the “Country Club” of the civilian run air...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Muriel D. Roberts, Family Historian and Genealogist, attended Jersey City State College as a Performing Arts/Theater major. She is a fourth-generation resident born, raised, and educated in Jersey City, New Jersey, with ancestral locations in Colonial New York, New...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Sarah WalshIn the 18th- and 19th-centuries in America, textiles and textile goods were considered a separate legal category from other types of property, and as a result, those without property rights could assert and negotiate ownership of them. Textiles held...
