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Samantha Garrity, MEd—Erasing Native Peoples and Their Cultures: Forced Boarding Schools & Sterilization Practices

Samantha Garrity, MEd—Erasing Native Peoples and Their Cultures: Forced Boarding Schools & Sterilization Practices

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News

Samantha Garrity, M.Ed., College of the Holy Cross Center for Writing Professional TutorThis presentation will cover the topics of how white America actively worked to erase Native American peoples and their cultures through forced boarding schools and...
Bernard Rosenthal Trubowitz—Documented During their Detention: Textile Workers and the “Bread and Roses” Strike of 1912

Bernard Rosenthal Trubowitz—Documented During their Detention: Textile Workers and the “Bread and Roses” Strike of 1912

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News

Bernard Rosenthal Trubowitz, previously with the National Park Service in Lowell, the USS Constitution Museum, Old North, and other historic sitesWhen the Essex Country Jail closed in the late 1980s, more than 100,000 documents dating back to 1853 were bundled in...
Earl Taylor—Tide Mills—How They Worked and Where They Were Located in the Boston Area from Revere to Quincy

Earl Taylor—Tide Mills—How They Worked and Where They Were Located in the Boston Area from Revere to Quincy

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News

Earl Taylor, President, Dorchester Historical SocietyThe topic of Tide Mills represents a forgotten piece of American industrial history. Tide mill sites have been identified along the Atlantic coast of North America from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas. Their dependence...
Brian Sheehy and Gabriel Papa—A High School History Lab: Bringing History to Life

Brian Sheehy and Gabriel Papa—A High School History Lab: Bringing History to Life

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | Education, History News

Brian Sheehy, history department coordinator at North Andover High School and Gabriel Papa, senior at North Andover High SchoolIn the spring of 2018, North Andover High School (North Andover, MA) created a History Learning Lab where students learn about...
Stephanie Call, MS—“The Hero of Dear Old Halifax”: The Massachusetts Relief Effort Following the Halifax Explosion of 1917

Stephanie Call, MS—“The Hero of Dear Old Halifax”: The Massachusetts Relief Effort Following the Halifax Explosion of 1917

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News

Stephanie Call, MS, Associate Director of Archives and Education at the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical SocietyOn Dec. 6, 1917, a collision in Halifax Harbor caused the largest man-made explosion to date. Nearly 2,000 people...
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