by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 11, 2023 | History News, The Kiosk
A group of researchers came together amid the pandemic to solve a century old mystery. The community they created was as valuable as the story itself. Excerpts from a story written by Jennifer Moore for GBH “On the toasty morning of July 15, 1891, four...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 9, 2023 | History News
Elizabeth D. LeonardBenjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 2, 2023 | History News
Rebecca Simon, PhDPirates scholar, Rebecca Simon, PhD, explains how the global manhunt for Captain Kidd turned pirates into the romantic antiheroes we love today. Crime and punishment. During his life and after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was well known in...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Feb 27, 2023 | News, Publick Occurences
Sponsor the 2023 Mass History Conference Publick Occurrences February 27, 2023 Want to make your mark on the 2023 Mass History Conference? The Massachusetts History Alliance invites you to sponsor the upcoming Massachusetts History Conference. This...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Feb 23, 2023 | History News
Catherine MusemecheThe untold true story of Mary Sears, the “first oceanographer of the Navy,” whose revolutionary research fueled the U.S. victory over Japan in the Pacific during WWII. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping...
