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...
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...
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,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 29, 2022 | History News
Neil Lanctot— The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth century split over America’s response to World War I. In the early years of the twentieth century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 22, 2022 | History News
Robert Matzen— When he left Hollywood in March 1941, Jimmy Stewart was America’s boy next door movie star and a recent Academy Award winner. He left all that behind to join the United States Army Air Corps and fulfill his family mission to serve his country—only to...