by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 29, 2022 | History News
Joan DeJean has been Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1988. She previously taught at Yale and at Princeton. She is the author of twelve books on French literature, history, and material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2022 | History News
Olivier Zunz is the James Madison Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Changing Face of Inequality, 1982, Making America Corporate, 1990, Why the American Century?, 1998, Philanthropy in America: A History, 2012, and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 19, 2022 | News, Publick Occurences
PUBLICK OCCURRENCES– SEPTEMBER 19, 2022 ANNOUNCING: HISTORY STUDIO ON THE COMMONS A free virtual event platform for the Massachusetts history community, available now on the Mass History Commons Do you have something you would like to present? Skills to share or...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 15, 2022 | History News
Damien LewisNo food. No water. Out of ammo. Hunted and on the run. The dreaded certainty of discovery looming between recapture and safe haven. What would you do? Give up? For the seven heroes of Churchill’s Great Escapes the answer was simple: keep moving...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 8, 2022 | History News
Kenneth Whyte— An impoverished orphan who built a fortune. A great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then resoundingly defeated four years later. Arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism, Herbert Hoover lived one of...
