by Massachusetts History Alliance | Feb 2, 2023 | History News
Damien LewisSinger. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 26, 2023 | History News
Bob BrierHoward Carter and his team took ten years to clear Tutankhamun’s tomb, pack the thrones, beds, shrines, and coffins, and place them on steamers to take them down the Nile to Cairo to be displayed in the Egyptian Museum. For most people, this is where the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 19, 2023 | History News
Skip to content [embedded content]Stacy Schiff Thomas Jefferson once asserted that if there were any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” Without him, his cousin John said, “the true history of the American Revolution can never be...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 12, 2023 | History News
Ricardo A. HerreraIn this major new history of the Continental Army’s Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and coldest days of the American Revolution: the Valley...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 11, 2023 | News, Publick Occurences
Mass History Conference and Mass History Commons Logistics Coordinator The Mass History Alliance, a volunteer-run organization, is looking for an energetic, reliable, independently working, personable, detail-oriented, flexible, and somewhat IT-savvy contractor...
