by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 14, 2024 | History News
Jonathan W. WhiteBook 1: Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 1, 2024 | History News
Pamela D. TolerFrom the Publisher The Chicago Tribune’s Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Sigrid Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters, male or female, to warn...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jul 22, 2024 | History News
Marion GibsonFrom the publisher: A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jul 14, 2024 | History News
John L. Smith, Jr.From the publisher: Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America’s founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. She met many important and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jul 8, 2024 | History News
William R. HoganOverview from the Publisher A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the “Spearhead,” that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany—against impossible odds, technologically superior...
