by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 30, 2023 | History News
Thomas E. RicksWith Waging a Good War, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, highlighting the Movement’s unexpected commonalities with the kind of...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 23, 2023 | History News
Christopher C. GorhamFrom modest immigrant beginnings–lacking even a high school diploma—Anna Rosenberg rose to the highest levels of American power and stayed there, shaping national policies in areas dominated by men: business, the military, and politics. Her impact...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 20, 2023 | News, Publick Occurences
Marieke Van Damme to Give Keynote at 2023 Mass History Conference Publick Occurrences March 20, 2023 The Massachusetts History Alliance is pleased to announce that Marieke Van Damme, Executive Director of History Cambridge, will give the keynote address at the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Mar 16, 2023 | History News
Rebecca Boggs RobertsA nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and power. While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downplayed her...
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...
