by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Lori Rogers-Stokes, PhD, (lori.stokes@comcast.net | LinkedIn) is an independent scholar, public historian, and contributing editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project making thousands of pages of colonial-era Congregational church...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Rebecca SimonPiracy has captured people’s imagination for hundreds of years. The vast majority of pirates were sailors who were forced into that life or people who wanted to amass wealth quickly. This presentation thus asks the question: How did realities of piracy...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Ken LissMary Wild (1799-1883) and Adeline Faxon (1834-1853) lived near each other in 1850s Brookline. There were, of course, many differences then – as there are now – between a teenage girl and a woman running a family and a household. One thing they had in common is...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Alison Simcox & Douglas HeathOne of the earliest mill villages in the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed along Spot Pond Brook, a few miles north of Boston. Thomas Coytmore, a sea captain, built the first mill in 1640 at the brook’s downstream end in “Mistick Side”...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Jane Sancinito, PhDEntrepreneur is a dirty word, at least if you are an ancient Roman. A broad brush, wielded by slave-owning elites, was used to paint freed and freeborn artisans, retailers, and service providers as a grubby, greedy underclass who threatened the...
