by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 12, 2023 | History News
Quinn R. StuartThe US Naval Shipbuilding Museum was established in 1994 when the US Navy transferred USS Salem, a Cold War-era heavy cruiser, to the museum at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. Salem, nicknamed the Sea Witch, was commissioned in 1949...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 12, 2023 | History News
Thomas J. Carey, Jr.The trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the murder of two men during a payroll robbery on the afternoon of April 15, 1920, in Braintree, Massachusetts, was one of the most widely publicized cases in Massachusetts history. Indeed, it...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 12, 2023 | History News
Kiersten Marcil is an author and adventurer into history. Kiersten is the ambassador of a fantastical ride through the hidden deer paths of the American Revolutionary War in her book series, The Enlightened. Growing up, the Battlefields of Saratoga were her...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 12, 2023 | History News
Gerald HollandInfluential patriot, James Otis Jr., and royal governor of Colonial Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, started as political acquaintances. In 1760, they sparked a political and personal rivalry that unwittingly swept them up as leading forces in Boston’s...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 12, 2023 | History News
Mark SzymcikHow did the towns of the three Western Massachusetts counties, Worcester, Hampshire and Berkshire become more democratic before “The shot heard around the world”? What steps did the farmers, yoemen and artisans take to repudiate British taxes? How did they...
