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...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Alison Simcox & Douglas HeathOne of the earliest mill villages in the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed along Spot Pond Brook, a few miles north of Boston. Thomas Coytmore, a sea captain, built the first mill in 1640 at the brook’s downstream end in “Mistick Side”...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Jane Sancinito, PhDEntrepreneur is a dirty word, at least if you are an ancient Roman. A broad brush, wielded by slave-owning elites, was used to paint freed and freeborn artisans, retailers, and service providers as a grubby, greedy underclass who threatened the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
Chris HallThe Great Bengal Famine of 1770 and the Boston Tea Party There was far more behind the Boston Tea Party than just anger over taxes. Starting in 1769, the East India Company fomented a famine which led to the death of millions of Bengalese. News of this...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 27, 2024 | History News
George J. Veith, PhD, is a former U.S. Army Captain who served in armor units in the United States and Germany from 1979–1986. He earned his PhD in History from Monash University and is the author of several books on the Vietnam War including, most recently, Drawn...
