by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Judith GrangerUpon finding the first American Anti-Slavery Almanac (1836), Granger learned a sorrowful family story — a white mother so bereft that her husband bought her a black baby, to be named Pomp Russell. Granger was inspired to learn more about Pomp’s life and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Judy AndersonFind out how and where the “first” shots of the American Revolutionary War could have taken place in Marblehead and/or at Salem’s North Bridge on February 26th in 1775, less than two months before Lexington and Concord, in the exact same scenario. Who was...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Peter Gleason and Daniel GleasonThe Fenian Brotherhood, first organized in 1858 in New York City, was a highly militarized and fraternal group of Irish nationalists who sought to fight against British rule by any means possible. Their methods and aims were numerous,...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Tom McMillan spent a lifetime in sports media and communications, but his true passion is history. Tom is the author of five books on American history and was a guest on our program earlier to discuss Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Abby Battis, ALM, is the Director at Historic Beverly. She has more than a decade of experience in the museum field in curatorial practice and collections management. Ms. Battis holds a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Museum Studies from the Harvard Extension School...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Rebecca Carpenter, MA, joined Draper in 2022 as the Corporate Archivist, where she leads efforts to document and preserve Draper’s rich history. Her work spans the management of all physical and digital documents, photographs, and artifacts. In this role, she also...
