by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Judith GrangerUpon finding the first American Anti-Slavery Almanac (1836), Granger learned a sorrowful family story — a white mother so bereft that her husband bought her a black baby, to be named Pomp Russell. Granger was inspired to learn more about Pomp’s life and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Judy AndersonFind out how and where the “first” shots of the American Revolutionary War could have taken place in Marblehead and/or at Salem’s North Bridge on February 26th in 1775, less than two months before Lexington and Concord, in the exact same scenario. Who was...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Peter Gleason and Daniel GleasonThe Fenian Brotherhood, first organized in 1858 in New York City, was a highly militarized and fraternal group of Irish nationalists who sought to fight against British rule by any means possible. Their methods and aims were numerous,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Tom McMillan spent a lifetime in sports media and communications, but his true passion is history. Tom is the author of five books on American history and was a guest on our program earlier to discuss Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Abby Battis, ALM, is the Director at Historic Beverly. She has more than a decade of experience in the museum field in curatorial practice and collections management. Ms. Battis holds a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Museum Studies from the Harvard Extension School...
