by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News
J. L. Bell author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War and Boston 1775 In the decade that led to the Revolutionary War, Boston’s newspapers were a major political battleground. The town’s journalism scene–the oldest and most...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | Education, History News
Patrick Riccards is Chief Communications and Strategy Officer of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and co-director of its American History Initiative. Patrick began his career on Capitol Hill, where he served in senior communications positions for members of the U.S....
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News
Kevin M. Levin, Gann AcademyIn recent years, Internet stories, textbooks, and even a Harvard professor have insisted that thousands of slaves took up arms and fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. And yet, after close to ten years of research, I have yet to...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News
Abby Chandler, PhD, Associate Professor of Early American History University of Massachusetts LowellMartin Howard was a Revolutionary War era Loyalist whose life spanned the Anglo-American Atlantic world, while Abigail Greenleaf was the daughter of Stephen Greenleaf,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2019 | History News
Dr. David S. Weed, Coordinator, Sowams Heritage Area ProjectFew people know that a treaty in March of 1621 between Massasoit of the Pokanoket Tribe and the leaders of the Plymouth Colony set in place a fifty year period of peaceful relations. That treaty not only...
