by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Dan GagnonAlmost two centuries after the 1692 Witch-Hunt, an impressive memorial was constructed near the purported grave of Rebecca Nurse, one of the nineteen innocents executed for witchcraft. However, across town the well-known (but unmarked) grave of George Jacobs...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Margo BurnsOn first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with hysterics. This presentation explores an array of primary sources from the witchcraft prosecutions in seventeenth century New...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Samantha GarrityFew have heard of Hannie Schaft, Truus Oversteegen, and Freddie Oversteegen. They were assassins in the Dutch resistance during World War II. They became assassins as young women, some only in their teens, when they first began seducing and liquidating...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Mark SzymcikThere is an anonymous saying “It is easy to see the hand of God in the world; the difficulty is to figure out which way His finger is pointing.” Lincoln rejected the Hard-shell Baptist religion of his parents, yet struggled with discerning God’s will...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Giovanni AlabisoSalem begins in 1626 as a fishing village and grows into a dominant seaport after the American Revolution. By the early 1800s, Salem is arguably the richest seaport in the United States with wealth in today’s dollars that exceed $150 billion. Elias...
