by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Judy CataldoThe summer of 1775 was a sad time in many Massachusetts towns when they experienced an epidemic of dysentery known as the Bloody Flux. As historians, we spend a lot of time looking at the big picture of how we got from Lexington to Yorktown. This will look...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Bernard Rosenthal TrubowitzWhich is more pervasive, a stone monument or a shellac record? Using a period gramophone, we will explore the influence of material culture in shaping and encoding racism in the United States and discuss the responsibility of museums and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Aug 31, 2022 | History News
Scott NadlerFor all we study of “the Founders,” we overlook some of the most interesting, and maybe most important, people: The disruptors, the organizers, the agitators who tore down British rule and created the openings for the Founders. By looking at one agitator...
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...
