by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Roxanne Reddington-WildeEquality was not a social ideal in the Early Modern Scottish Highlands of the 16th – 18th C. “Be yours assurit at his command;”(#26) “Your is assuritly att his power;”(#27) “Your Ladyship is to command at service”(#40): Cranky Colin...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Eric PetersonSize mattered to 19th century steam engineers E. D. Leavitt and Edwin Reynolds. In fact, they competed to build the largest Prime Power equipment on the planet. This session will explore the remarkably similar lives of these now-forgotten master makers...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Mike Troy, Jake Sconyers, J. L. Bell, and Larisa MoranA panel of podcasters, bloggers, and video bloggers discusses how new forms of media are transforming the presentation of History. We will discuss how podcasting and other new media differ from traditional media,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Lori Rogers-StokesWhen we talk to people about the history we love, we find our listeners are generally fans or critics. When it comes to the puritans, most people are critics. This means that I often find myself labeled a de facto “puritan defender” because my talks...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Judy CataldoThe summer of 1775 was a sad time in many Massachusetts towns when they experienced an epidemic of dysentery known as the Bloody Flux. As historians, we spend a lot of time looking at the big picture of how we got from Lexington to Yorktown. This will look...
