by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Andy VolpeIn March of 2020, for the 250th commemoration, Andy painstakingly hand-engraved a full-size replica of Revere’s “Boston Massacre”, which was printed off the wooden rolling press at the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, doing everything that Revere did, by...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Marilynne RoachNineteenth century historian Charles Upham stated that the deceased were “undoubtedly all thrown into pits dug among the rocks” after the hangings. More recent popular accounts and all too many walking tours of Salem tend to enlarge on the more gruesome...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
J.L. BellFrom Founders’ quotes to inspirational legends to details that historians have repeated for so long that nobody considers where they came from, our history abounds with assertions that we should be skeptical about. This workshop discusses how to assess such...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Roxanne Reddington-WildeEquality was not a social ideal in the Early Modern Scottish Highlands of the 16th – 18th C. “Be yours assurit at his command;”(#26) “Your is assuritly att his power;”(#27) “Your Ladyship is to command at service”(#40): Cranky Colin...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Eric PetersonSize mattered to 19th century steam engineers E. D. Leavitt and Edwin Reynolds. In fact, they competed to build the largest Prime Power equipment on the planet. This session will explore the remarkably similar lives of these now-forgotten master makers...
