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...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 18, 2018 | History News, Uncategorized
The City of Boston Archives specializes in retaining Boston’s municipal legal, governmental, and historical records. Hours:Visits by Appointments Only: Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Directions Public Transit: 1. Take the MBTA Orange line or #39...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 18, 2018 | History News, Uncategorized
University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston was established in 1981 as a repository to collect archival material in subject areas of interest to the university, as well as the records of the...
