by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Oct 27, 2025 | History News, The Profession
10.27.2025 Christian Kelly, Public Relations & Events Manager Mass Cultural Facilities Fund | Press Release Fall 2025 Cultural Facilities Fund grant recipients (left to right): Clapp Memorial Library, Greater Boston Stage Company, Friends of the North Leverett...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Michel Paradis, PhD, JD, is a leading human rights lawyer, historian, and national security law scholar and most recently the author of the critically acclaimed Last Mission to Tokyo. He is also a partner at the international...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Marilynne K. RoachIn the 1930s during the Great Depression, before images of actual trial documents became widely viewable, an enterprising con man covered the heartland, financing his travels by using Salem Witch Trial death warrants as collateral for loans from the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Giovanni AlabisoSalem, Massachusetts will be 400 years old in 2026. It is rich in history, including a critical role in the American Revolution, and being the richest seaport in America per capita from 1790 to 1812. And then, there’s the 1692 Witch Trials. There were...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Rebecca FlyntConsidered to be the first political sex scandal in America, the affair between Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and a married woman named Maria Reynolds in 1791–92 was more than just a salacious tale of passion and betrayal, it had political...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 27, 2025 | History News
Kathleen Coulter, MSedThis presentation will examine the challenges to George Washington’s leadership of the Continental Army while at Valley Forge from 1777–1778. Washington dealt decisively with multiple challenges, including supplying the Army (on their way to the...
