by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Jake SconyersThe most popular song of the Union Army during the Civil War was inspired by the most hated man in America, it borrowed the tune from an old church hymn, and it was first sung at Fort Warren on Georges Island in the Boston Harbor Islands. Together, we’ll...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Leslie Goddard, PhD, (lesliegoddardpresents.com) is an award-winning historian and actress who has been presenting programs on topics in 20th century American history and women’s history for more than twenty years. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Northwestern...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
J. L. Bell is the proprietor of the Boston 1775 website (boston1775.blogspot.com), providing daily helpings of history, analysis, and unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England. He is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the...
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,...
