Recently added articles from Historical Journal of Massachusetts:
The Literary and Military Career of Benjamin Church: Change or Continuity in Early American Warfare
Jul 01, 2007; Chet, Guy ... Much of American scholarship on the colonial era has focused on the cultural and political transformation of Englishmen into Americans in thirteen of Britain's American colonies. This is one way of solving the problem of the American Revolution - explaining why on earth these people rebelled?2 ...
"The Most Agreeable Country": New Light on Democratic-Republican Opinion of Massachusetts in the 1790s
Jul 01, 2007; Scherr, Arthur ... Among recent notable trends in eighteenth century American historiography are complementary emphases on "Atlantic history," resonating with current scholarly interest in hemispheric relations and globalism, and a simultaneous stress on regionalism: the relations between the divergent sections ...
A Massachusetts Yankee in the Court of Charleston: Jasper Adams, College President in Antebellum South Carolina
Jul 01, 2007; Vaughn, Gerald ... Massachusetts clergyman and educator Jasper Adams (1793-1841) was among the line of notable descendants of Henry Adams (1583-1646), who fled persecution in England circa 1630 and settled on a farm in the Braintree area, then part of Boston. The most notable of Henry Adams's descendants include ...
Book Notes
Jul 01, 2007; Anonymous ... The Dalai Lama at MIT. Edited by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc. 2006. Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. $24.95. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and several neuroscientists got together for a series of discussions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Locating "Wissatinnewag": A Second Opinion
Jul 01, 2007; Miles, Lion G ... Appearing in the Winter 2006 issue of the Historical Journal of Massachusetts was an article about the identity of the Indian word "Wissatinnewag" by Marge Bruchac and Peter Thomas. As they explained, the word is found in only one place: a July 1663 letter that John Pynchon of Springfield wrote ...
Destination: Holyoke
Jul 01, 2007; Cohen, Tina ... Kate Navarra Thibodeau, Destination: Holyoke, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA, 2006. Holyoke' s history - of a place both grim and colorful - is brought to life with photographs and anecdotes in the new paperback book, Destination: Holyoke, written by Kate Navarra Thibodeau. Thibodeau ...
The Complexities Found, as Well as Insights Gained, From the Identification of a Birthplace of Free Public Education: The Case of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Jul 01, 2007; Kolodny, Kelly Ann ... The debate over when and where free public education began in the United States continues to demand attention. Understandably, this is a complicated debate that entails reflection on what free public education means, consideration of how one could identify the birth of this activity, and ...
Political Places of Boston: From the Backrooms to the Golden Dome
Jul 01, 2007; Symington, Timothy ... Clint Richmond, Political Places of Boston: From the Backrooms to the Golden Dome, Muddy River Press, Brookline, MA, 2004. There are many guides for getting around Boston: sightseeing, historical, sports, college hang-outs, etc. Clint Richmond has written an original type of guide. He ...