by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 3, 2019 | History News
Judy CataldoThe art of spinning fibers into thread is an ancient craft with a process that has changed only slightly over the millennia. Or has it? How has modern spinning influenced the way we think spinning was done in the 18th century? This presentation will look...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 2, 2019 | History News
Roxanne Reddington-Wilde, PhDIn the Scottish Highlands, a remarkable continuity of social roles, occupations and expectations runs through the centuries, from the culture’s foremothers in Early Ireland through to the 19th C. and even, in some key roles and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 2, 2019 | History News
Tom Nallen, aviation historianIn a few short Depression-era years, five Granville Brothers from rural New Hampshire went from ploughing fields with oxen to developing the fastest airplanes in the world. And it happened right here in Massachusetts. Through triumph and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 31, 2019 | History News
Karen Warren, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, VirginiaOnly one of two homes Thomas Jefferson designed for his personal use, Poplar Forest was the place where Jefferson “came to indulge in the life of the mind and renew his personal creativity.”...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 31, 2019 | History News
Mary E. Raker, Public History Student at Salem State UniversityThroughout history people have been fascinated with objects, from the visual attributes, to the people who owned them. Looking at the style that an object was made in, and what materials were used to...
