by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
John Cass and Scott NadlerCass and Nadler solved decades-old family mysteries that genealogy alone couldn’t solve. Their presentation follows a family using an innovative approach to fill gaps from Eastern Europe to East 9th Street in New York City, with touch-points...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Lee Wright founded The History List in 2011 to help organizations publicize their events and exhibits and The History List Store with original products for history lovers in 2016 to help pay for The History List platform. In 2014 he started History Camp to bring...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Lori Rogers-Stokes, PhD, (lori.stokes@comcast.net | LinkedIn) is an independent scholar, public historian, and contributing editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project making thousands of pages of colonial-era Congregational church...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Rebecca SimonPiracy has captured people’s imagination for hundreds of years. The vast majority of pirates were sailors who were forced into that life or people who wanted to amass wealth quickly. This presentation thus asks the question: How did realities of piracy...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Ken LissMary Wild (1799-1883) and Adeline Faxon (1834-1853) lived near each other in 1850s Brookline. There were, of course, many differences then – as there are now – between a teenage girl and a woman running a family and a household. One thing they had in common is...
