by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 11, 2024 | History News
Sharon McMahonFrom the Publisher: In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Nov 25, 2024 | History News
Sonia AndersonThe events that unfolded in the Battle of Dunkirk remain one of the greatest stories in human history. In May 1940, overpowered by the Nazis in mainland Europe, over half a million British and French soldiers faced annihilation and were forced to retreat...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Nov 12, 2024 | History News
Nathaniel ParryFrom the Publisher: One a revolutionary leader and the other a vagabond who deserted from the Continental Army, Samuel Adams and Henry Tufts appear opposites, yet they were two sides of the same coin. While one devoted his life to overthrowing British...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2024 | History News
Stan HaynesFrom the author: “The 2024 nominating conventions are now part of American political history. My recent book, Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Presidential Nominating Conventions from 1904 to 1944, was published a few months before the conventions and was...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 13, 2024 | History News
Robert W. MerryFrom the Publisher: With “characteristic wisdom and grace” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) Robert W. Merry explores a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever demonstrating how the country came apart during the...
