by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 31, 2019 | History News
Rose A. Doherty is a founding board member of The Pursuit of History. She is president emerita of the Partnership of Historic Bostons, an all-volunteer group dedicated to preserving the legacies of Boston, Massachusetts, and Boston, England, in the seventeenth...
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...
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...
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...
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...
