by Massachusetts History Alliance | May 28, 2020 | History News
Dr. Samuel A. Forman, MD, MBA, MPH, a historian and Harvard University faculty member, is educated in the history of the American Revolution as well as the practice of clinical and preventive medicine. Throughout his successful careers as a physician, military...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | May 21, 2020 | History News
Karen A. Chase is an independent author and a Daughter of the American Revolution with the Commonwealth Chapter in Virginia. Her first novel, Carrying Independence, book one of the 3-part Founding-Documents Series, is historical fiction about the signing of the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | May 14, 2020 | History News
Eric Jay Dolin is the author of and A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes (2020), Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates (2018), Brilliant Beacons: A History of...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 16, 2020 | History News, Uncategorized
By David M. Powers, 16 April 2020 NEW FREEMEN SWORN IN Even though all adult males could legally vote after May 1647, but in local elections only, Springfield citizens had little say beyond their own town. Only seven of forty-three male residents of legal age were...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 16, 2020 | History News
John L. BellThe first interview in the History Camp Discussion series, J. L. Bell, discusses his research into Revolutionary Boston, including countering some often-repeated “facts” about the events that led to the shots fired at Lexington and Concord, and how he...
