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Steve Call — Selling Air Power: How Popular Culture was Used to Promote Land-Based Air Power, 1903-1965

Steve Call — Selling Air Power: How Popular Culture was Used to Promote Land-Based Air Power, 1903-1965

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News

Steve CallFrom the dawn of human flight through the mid-sixties, a significant number of influential people, the “air power advocates,” used popular culture to “sell” the American public on air power. Some military figures, especially Billy Mitchell, played important...
Will Melton — Captain Slarrow, Major Montague, and the 1774 North Leverett Sawmill

Will Melton — Captain Slarrow, Major Montague, and the 1774 North Leverett Sawmill

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News

Will MeltonThe 1774 Slarrow’s Sawmill was built by Captain Joseph Slarrow, the son of some of the earliest Presbyterian Irish immigrants to Massachusetts. Slarrow’s business, political, and military partner was Major Richard Montague, who adopted the radical...
Barbara Silberman — Opium: The Business of Addiction

Barbara Silberman — Opium: The Business of Addiction

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News

Barbara Silberman, MHA, works as an independent consultant for arts and culture organizations. She founded and directed the Heritage Philadelphia Program, making grants and providing technical assistance to over 300 historic house museums. She taught “Revitalizing...
John Cass & Scott Nadler — Using “Neighbor History” to Fill Gaps and Solve Mysteries

John Cass & Scott Nadler — Using “Neighbor History” to Fill Gaps and Solve Mysteries

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News

John Cass and Scott NadlerCass and Nadler solved decades-old family mysteries that genealogy alone couldn’t solve. Their presentation follows a family using an innovative approach to fill gaps from Eastern Europe to East 9th Street in New York City, with touch-points...
Lee Wright, J.L. Bell and Scott Nadler — The Pursuit of History: Past, Present, and Future

Lee Wright, J.L. Bell and Scott Nadler — The Pursuit of History: Past, Present, and Future

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News

Lee Wright founded The History List in 2011 to help organizations publicize their events and exhibits and The History List Store with original products for history lovers in 2016 to help pay for The History List platform. In 2014 he started History Camp to bring...
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