by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
J.L. Bell (boston1775.blogspot.com) is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War, the National Park Service report Gen. George Washington’s Home and Headquarters—Cambridge, Mass., and numerous articles. He...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
Matthew Mees, AB, toils in the fields as an independent researcher of pre-revolutionary New England, with a particular interest in how people, communities and regions were connected; exploring their spiritual and economic lives; their relationships with the First...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
Robert ForrantMany know about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City in 1911, which cost 146 workers their lives. How many know about a similar occurrence on January 10, 1860, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, when nearly 100 workers were killed in the...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
Abby ChandlerCanadian writer L.M. Montgomery is best known as the author of multiple novels including Anne of Green Gables, but she was also a passionate gardener who filled her novels with carefully detailed gardens. The early 1920s found Montgomery at a turning...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
Steven W. Hill, MA, (dupageflag@gmail.com, dupagemilitaryflag.com) has been researching military flags and colors, with special focus on the regimental colors of the five major combatants in the American War for Independence—American, French, British, German, and...
by Massachusetts History Alliance | Oct 7, 2025 | History News
Andrew LawlerAs the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded in Virginia that proved every bit as decisive as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill in uniting the colonies against Britain. Virginia,...
