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Kyle Jenks and Judith Kalaora — James and Dolley: Opposites Attract

Kyle Jenks and Judith Kalaora James and Dolley: Opposites Attract Kyle Jenks and Judith Kalaora perform scenes from the play, James and Dolley: Opposites Attract, that reveal the tension, uncertainty, and fear during the invasion of Washington by British troops on August 1814. For two days the president and Mrs. Madison searched for each another amidst the chaos and destruction going on in Washington. They will continue the performance with thoughts and feelings expressed to each other and the audience, recollecting their marriage in a way that only a truly devoted and loving couple could, and then will take questions from the audience.

2023-08-31T03:17:31-04:00March 15, 2019|

Gary Gregory — Printing in Boston in the 1760s and 1770s and its Critical Role in the Revolution

Gary Gregory Printing in Boston in the 1760s and 1770s and its Critical Role in the Revolution Printers played a critical role in the Revolution, and none was more important than Edes & Gill. In this session you’ll join Gary, proprietor of a recreated Edes & Gill, in his shop as he begins his day. You’ll get a close look at the process of type setting and the operation of the common press and the rolling press. You’ll also learn how the Sons of Liberty used the press, particularly Edes & Gill, in the run up to the Revolution, how these large presses were broken down and moved outside of Boston to keep the news flowing during the siege, and what happened when a copy of the Declaration of Independence arrived in Boston. Gary will also describe the research he’s done to make exact reproductions of [Read more...]

2023-11-22T10:09:22-05:00November 8, 2022|

Michael C. Harris — Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777

Michael C. Harris Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777 Michael C. Harris, author and historian, on his new book, Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777, which covers battle of Germantown, one of the largest battles of the Revolutionary War. From the publisher: This book is the first complete study merging the tactics, politics, and strategic importance of the Battle of Germantown during the American Revolutionary War. Today, Germantown is a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital whose surrounding fields and streets witnessed one of the largest battles of the American Revolution. The bloody battle represented George Washington’s attempt to recapture Philadelphia, but has long been overshadowed by better-known events like Brandywine, Saratoga, and Valley Forge. Award-winning author Michael C. Harris’s impressive [Read more...]

2024-03-15T10:15:19-04:00March 14, 2024|

History Camp Iowa

If you have a passion for history, History Camp is for you. It’s a unique opportunity to spend a day with others from all walks of life who have a passion for history, from authors, teachers, genealogists, and students, to park rangers, museum volunteers, librarians, and individuals from other professions and backgrounds. Sine 2015, History Camp Iowa has been held annually in Des Moines. Our most recent event welcomed more than 100 passionate history enthusiasts who came together to share their stories in two dozen sessions and joined us on outings to historic sites in and around Des Moines. If you have a suggestion for an outing or would like to apply to present at the next History Camp Iowa, sign-up for our email list below. You will receive information as soon as the next History Camp Iowa call for presenters is announced. History Camp Iowa is a independent [Read more...]

2022-08-24T03:50:25-04:00March 22, 2021|

Laura A. Macaluso — George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Laura Macaluso George Washington’s Mount Vernon Using maps and historic and contemporary photographs, this virtual presentation will trace the development of Mount Vernon from a traditional Virginia farmhouse to a Georgian mansion, with massive wings, a Palladian window in the New Room, and color schemes done in the highest contemporary style. Highlights of the interior include Washington’s painting collection of American waterways, the Key to the Bastille, and his personal study, where a love for technology, learning and family are on display. The presentation will address the workings of Mount Vernon as a house but also as part of an 8,000-acre plantation, on which more than 300 enslaved men, women and children lived and worked. A tour (through photographs) of the outbuildings of Mount Vernon discusses this work, and will include the gardens, orchard, greenhouse, and Pioneer Farm. Every visit to Mount Vernon must include stops [Read more...]

2023-11-22T09:51:31-05:00November 7, 2022|

William Sonn — Something Like Treason: Pro-German American Soldiers and the Plot to Bring the War Home

William Sonn Something Like Treason: Pro-German American Soldiers and the Plot to Bring the War Home Author William Sonn, on his new book, Something Like Treason: Pro-German American Soldiers and the Plot to Bring the War Home, which traces the story of six men who were accused of treason during WWII, including one who was the only American soldier to be convicted of treason on U.S. soil during the war. [Publisher’s excerpt.] Not everyone in the U.S. military was rooting for America. In 1942, in its rush to assemble a force of seven million to take on the Axis powers, the Army discovered it had inducted some seemingly iffy patriots. They had FBI files, German-sounding names, records as disruptive college students, traveled to Europe pre-war, or did nothing at all. Suspicion was enough. Unsure of what to do with them, the Army put them all into a misfit [Read more...]

2024-01-19T13:57:44-05:00January 27, 2022|

Joyce Lee Malcolm — The Times That Try Men’s Souls: The Adams, the Quincys, and the Battle for Loyalty in the American Revolution

Joyce Lee Malcolm The Times That Try Men's Souls: The Adams, the Quincys, and the Battle for Loyalty in the American Revolution From the publisher: A compelling, intimate history of the Revolutionary period through a series of charismatic and ambitious families, revealing how the American Revolution was, in many ways, a civil war. Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! —John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777 All wars are tragic, but the "revolutionary generation" paid an exceptionally personal price. Foreign wars pull men from home to fight and die abroad leaving empty seats at the family table. But the ideological war that forms the foundation of a civil war also severs intimate family relationships and bonds of friendship in addition to the loss of life on the battle fields. In The Times That Try Men's Soul, [Read more...]

2024-01-15T19:46:07-05:00December 29, 2023|

Margo Buns, AB, MA — Yogi, Bugs, and Bullwinkle: Saturday Morning Cartoons and Big Business in the 1960s

Margo Burns, AB, MA, Project Manager and Associate Editor, Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt Yogi, Bugs, and Bullwinkle: Saturday Morning Cartoons and Big Business in the 1960s Many adults over forty think back fondly to the time they spent on Saturday mornings sitting in front of the tv with a bowl of Captain Crunch or Frosted Flakes, watching several hours of cartoons starring the likes of Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny, and Rocky & Bullwinkle. The advent of television in the late 1950s had a major impact on the movie industry and especially on cartoons. From the 1920s on, animated shorts by Disney, the Fleischer Brothers, several major motion picture studios were paired with newsreels that screened before feature films for adult audiences. The advent of television in the 1950s changed all that. By 1954, half the households in America had a tv, and 95% did by 1969. [Read more...]

2023-08-31T03:21:32-04:00March 16, 2019|

Friends of History Camp

Friends of History Camp Recognizing our Friends of History Camp for their additional support with these benefits: Name in the session guide for that year's History Camp. Name on signage at that year's History Camp. Name listed on the Friends of History Camp page (this page). This year's limited edition pin made exclusively for the Friends of History Camp. (2024 pin pictured at right and described below.) The opportunity to join us at the annual Friends of History Camp reception on Friday evening before History Camp Boston, held exclusively for that year's Friends of History Camp. 2024 Friends of History Camp Reception August 9, 2024 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Bell in Hand Tavern — 2nd floor 45-55 Union Street Boston, MA 02108 RSVP by Friday, August 2 Please join us as a Friend of History Camp this year with your donation of $150. [Read more...]

2024-09-10T19:48:45-04:00February 8, 2023|

Robert Booth and Amy E. Kellett — The Reinvention of Salem and the largest steam-powered cotton-sheeting factory in the United States

Robert Booth and Amy E. Kellett The Reinvention of Salem and the largest steam-powered cotton-sheeting factory in the United States A preliminary study of the industrial project by which Salem re-invented itself as a manufacturing center after the collapse of its maritime commerce. In 1846 the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company built the largest steam-powered cotton-sheeting factory in the United States, with huge implications for Salem. In a matter of two years, its population increased by 600 factory workers and their families, almost all of them in-migrants and immigrants residing in a built-new industrial village. Overnight, the city’s largest and most profitable business changed the course of Salem for the rest of the century. We are studying the business itself (projectors, investors, engineers, overseers) as well as the civic impact of a massive population influx and the origins and experience of the people who built the factory and [Read more...]

2023-08-31T03:43:01-04:00March 31, 2019|
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