by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 1, 2023 | History News
Holger AfflerbachWas the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the end result was in the balance until late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 28, 2023 | History News
Robert J. AllisonDecember 16, 1773, Bostonians destroyed three cargoes of East India Tea in one of the greatest acts of civil disobedience of all time, and the event that precipitated the Revolution. But why did this become such an important event? We will discuss the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 25, 2023 | History News
Marianne HoldzkomHas John Adams been forgotten? He is the only Founding Father without a major memorial in the nation’s capital. When he lamented that “monuments will never be erected to me,” he predicted as much. His pessimism was understandable, but it was...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 24, 2023 | History News
J. L. BellWilliam Dawes, Jr., is known today only as the other rider who carried news of the British army march to Lexington in April 1775. In fact, like his famous colleague Paul Revere, Dawes was active throughout Massachusetts’s Revolution. Before April 1775 he was...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 12, 2023 | History News
Dr. Jeff Howry has combined a career in various areas of historic preservation including historic property inventories, record documentation, archaeology and environmental compliance with real estate finance. Over the span of five decades, his work has taken him...
