by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 20, 2023 | History News
Fred AndersonThe French and Indian War -the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years’ War-remains one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, episodes in American history. Fred Anderson takes readers on a remarkable journey through the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 13, 2023 | History News
Kevin R. C. GutzmanA lively and essential chronicle of the only consecutive trio of two-term presidencies of the same political party in American history, from the bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson – Revolutionary and James Madison. Before the consecutive...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 12, 2023 | News, Publick Occurences
Registration Now Open for the 2023 Mass History Conference Publick Occurrences April 12, 2023 We invite you to join us on Monday June 5, 2023 at the Devens Commons Center in Devens, MA for Taking History to Town. Together, we’ll explore how local and regional...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Apr 6, 2023 | History News
Frederick C. LeinerOn October 31, 1803, the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a reef a few miles outside the harbor of Tripoli. Since April 1801, the United States had been at war with Tripoli, one of the Barbary “pirate” regimes, over the payment of annual...
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...
