by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 18, 2025 | History News
Liz CovartFor more than 150 years, British colonists in North America tried—and failed—to unite. Proposals for intercolonial councils, mutual defense, and shared diplomacy seemed like common sense, yet every attempt at forging a union collapsed under the weight of...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 11, 2025 | History News
Lori Rogers-StokesFrom the publisher Uncovering how and where Indigenous and settler communities found common ground using newly public church records Puritans in the American colonies created Congregationalism, a Protestant denomination where power rested in each...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
J.L. Bell (boston1775.blogspot.com) is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War, the National Park Service report Gen. George Washington’s Home and Headquarters—Cambridge, Mass., and numerous articles. He...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
Matthew Mees, AB, toils in the fields as an independent researcher of pre-revolutionary New England, with a particular interest in how people, communities and regions were connected; exploring their spiritual and economic lives; their relationships with the First...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
Robert ForrantMany know about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City in 1911, which cost 146 workers their lives. How many know about a similar occurrence on January 10, 1860, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, when nearly 100 workers were killed in the...
