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Christiana Boehmer — John Greenleaf Whittier: 19th-c. Abolitionist Poet from Massachusetts

Christiana Boehmer — John Greenleaf Whittier: 19th-c. Abolitionist Poet from Massachusetts

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...
Susan Weaver Johnson, MA — When the Silver Screen Took Flight

Susan Weaver Johnson, MA — When the Silver Screen Took Flight

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...
Connie Crosby, MA and Muriel D. Roberts — Parting Ways: A Remarkable Story of Black Families in Community from 18thc Plymouth to 19th Boston

Connie Crosby, MA and Muriel D. Roberts — Parting Ways: A Remarkable Story of Black Families in Community from 18thc Plymouth to 19th Boston

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...
Sarah Walsh — The Will of a Woman: Abigail Adams’s Textile Legacy

Sarah Walsh — The Will of a Woman: Abigail Adams’s Textile Legacy

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...
Heather Rogers — “We haven’t had a president with facial hair in more than a century” and Other Trivial Observations

Heather Rogers — “We haven’t had a president with facial hair in more than a century” and Other Trivial Observations

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News

Heather RogersHeather Rogers filled hundreds of sketchbook pages doodling her way through presidential biographies. Doing so heightened her curiosity and turned her into an insufferable presidential nerd. Along the way, she discovered unexpected threads connecting...
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