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Craig Chapman— Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies during the War of Jenkins’ Ear

Craig Chapman— Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies during the War of Jenkins’ Ear

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 29, 2023 | History News

Craig ChapmanDisaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure. Thirty-four years before...
Sold out: History Camp Virginia Outing—Appomattox Court House Tour

Sold out: History Camp Virginia Outing—Appomattox Court House Tour

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 27, 2023 | History News

Update: This event is sold out. ...
Patricia Posner— The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

Patricia Posner— The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 22, 2023 | History News

Patricia PosnerThe Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little-known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based...
Friederike Baer— Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War

Friederike Baer— Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 15, 2023 | History News

Friederike BaerBetween 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war,...
Charles Glass— Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War

Charles Glass— Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jun 8, 2023 | History News

Charles GlassA brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I. From the moment war broke out across...
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