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Will Holton and John Morrison—Bringing Early Boston History to Life: Creating and Growing the Partnership of the Historic Bostons

Will Holton and John Morrison—Bringing Early Boston History to Life: Creating and Growing the Partnership of the Historic Bostons

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 31, 2019 | History News

President Emeritus Will Holton and President John Morrison, Partnership of the Historic BostonsThe Partnership of the Historic Bostons was launched as an all-volunteer organization in 1999 when the Mayors of Boston, Lincolnshire, UK and Boston, Mass. signed an...
Robert Booth and Amy E. Kellett—The Reinvention of Salem and the largest steam-powered cotton-sheeting factory in the United States

Robert Booth and Amy E. Kellett—The Reinvention of Salem and the largest steam-powered cotton-sheeting factory in the United States

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 31, 2019 | History News

Robert Booth and Amy E. KellettA preliminary study of the industrial project by which Salem re-invented itself as a manufacturing center after the collapse of its maritime commerce. In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company built the largest steam-powered...
Rose A. Doherty—Park Street: A Mirror of Boston for Centuries

Rose A. Doherty—Park Street: A Mirror of Boston for Centuries

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...
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...
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