by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Bernard Rosenthal TrubowitzWhich is more pervasive, a stone monument or a shellac record? Using a period gramophone, we will explore the influence of material culture in shaping and encoding racism in the United States and discuss the responsibility of museums and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Scott NadlerFor all we study of “the Founders,” we overlook some of the most interesting, and maybe most important, people: The disruptors, the organizers, the agitators who tore down British rule and created the openings for the Founders. By looking at one agitator...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Dan GagnonAlmost two centuries after the 1692 Witch-Hunt, an impressive memorial was constructed near the purported grave of Rebecca Nurse, one of the nineteen innocents executed for witchcraft. However, across town the well-known (but unmarked) grave of George Jacobs...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Margo BurnsOn first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with hysterics. This presentation explores an array of primary sources from the witchcraft prosecutions in seventeenth century New...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Samantha GarrityFew have heard of Hannie Schaft, Truus Oversteegen, and Freddie Oversteegen. They were assassins in the Dutch resistance during World War II. They became assassins as young women, some only in their teens, when they first began seducing and liquidating...
