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Bob Brier — Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World

Bob Brier — Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 26, 2023 | History News

Bob BrierHoward Carter and his team took ten years to clear Tutankhamun’s tomb, pack the thrones, beds, shrines, and coffins, and place them on steamers to take them down the Nile to Cairo to be displayed in the Egyptian Museum. For most people, this is where the...
Stacy Schiff — The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff — The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 19, 2023 | History News

Skip to content [embedded content]Stacy Schiff Thomas Jefferson once asserted that if there were any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.”  Without him, his cousin John said, “the true history of the American Revolution can never be...
Ricardo A. Herrera — Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778

Ricardo A. Herrera — Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 12, 2023 | History News

Ricardo A. HerreraIn this major new history of the Continental Army’s Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and coldest days of the American Revolution: the Valley...

Mass History Alliance seeks Conference Coordinator

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 11, 2023 | News, Publick Occurences

Mass History Conference and Mass History Commons Logistics Coordinator The Mass History Alliance, a volunteer-run organization, is looking for an energetic, reliable, independently working, personable, detail-oriented, flexible, and somewhat IT-savvy contractor...
Greg Steinmetz— American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune

Greg Steinmetz— American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Jan 5, 2023 | History News

Greg Steinmetz— The gripping biography of Jay Gould, the greatest 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to institute its first financial reforms. The son of a poor farmer,...
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