by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 24, 2025 | History News
Jeffrey Orens From the Publisher A fascinating look back on baseball’s humble beginnings and its transformation into the national pastime, told through the lives of two men who dominated the game. The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 18, 2025 | History News
Matthew LockwoodAmazon Book Description Unfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 31, 2025 | History News
James BradleyFrom the Publisher: A new biography of the 8th president of the United States, the first chief executive not born a British citizen and the first to use the party system to chart his way from tavern-keeper’s son to the pinnacle of power. Martin Van Buren...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 24, 2025 | Conversations on the Commons (event), Conversations on the Commons Archive, News, Publick Occurences
Putting the Public in Publishing History March 21, 2025 12:00-1:30pm The gold standard of having done research in local history used to be to get it published. Is publishing the imprimatur from the history community that it once was? If you want to bring your...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 19, 2025 | Publick Occurences
Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 7pm for the next installment in our publishing history authors’ series! A Home in Woods Hole with Elizabeth SheehyApril 2, 20257:00-8:30pm Walter Nickerson and Helena Nugent built a house in Woods Hole more than a hundred years...
