by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Edward F. O’KeefeTheodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It’s little surprise he’d be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. His...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Heather S. Cole, MA, (heatherscole.com) is a writer and public historian living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She has a master’s degree in history from Salem State University and has worked in a variety of museums and archives, including at the Woodrow Wilson...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Lori Rogers-Stokes, PhD, (lori.stokes@comcast.net | LinkedIn) is an independent scholar, public historian, and contributing editor for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital history project making thousands of pages of colonial-era Congregational church...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Christiana Boehmer (antislaveryinessexcounty.substack.com) is an independent historian from Andover, Massachusetts, who writes about the antislavery movement in Essex County, Massachusetts, from 1760-1860. She earned graduate degrees in education and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Susan Weaver JohnsonBefore the attack on Pearl Harbor, a famous Hollywood agent and an exceptional test pilot teamed to create a primary flight school in the Arizona desert. Overseen by the US Army Air Corps, it was known as the “Country Club” of the civilian run air...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Sep 22, 2025 | History News
Muriel D. Roberts, Family Historian and Genealogist, attended Jersey City State College as a Performing Arts/Theater major. She is a fourth-generation resident born, raised, and educated in Jersey City, New Jersey, with ancestral locations in Colonial New York, New...
