by Massachusetts History Alliance | Nov 7, 2022 | History News
Karen Duvalle Wisconsin Maritime Museum, located in Manitowoc, WI, is the largest maritime museum on the Great Lakes and home to the World War II submarine USS Cobia. We highlight the region’s rich maritime history, including the production of 28 submarines for WWII....
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Nov 3, 2022 | History News
Lydia Moland— A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2022 | History News
Christian McBurney— At the start of the American War of Independence, Great Britain dominated overseas commerce and was the leading slave-trading nation in the world. In 1776, American privateers—privately owned ships granted commissions by the Continental Congress to...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 20, 2022 | History News
Stephen Knott— Stephen F. Knott has spent his life grappling with the legacy of President John F. Kennedy: JFK was the first president Knott remembers, he worked for Ted Kennedy’s Senate campaign in 1976, and later he worked at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston....
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 18, 2022 | Publick Occurences
Advocating for any cause can seem, at first, like a mystery. One of the first questions to answer is who exactly should I be advocating to? There are numerous levels of government from which we as history organizations should be seeking support. You probably already...
