The Hannah: The Birth of the American Navy in Massachusetts Waters
Image credit: National Museum of the United States Navy Before there was a United States Navy, there was the Hannah, a modest fishing schooner turned warship that helped launch America’s […]
W.E.B. Du Bois – Revolutionary Scholar of Racial Justice
Image credit: The Kennedy Center Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most visionary thinkers and global activists of the 20th century. A […]
Katharine Lee Bates: The Massachusetts Poet Behind “America the Beautiful”
Lloyd Lillie created this statue of Katharine Lee Bates, which sits on the front lawn of the Falmouth Public Library. Photo credit: Salley Mavor Katharine Lee Bates was born in […]
Arlington Gets Funding Boost For Revolutionary Battle Memorial: Report
The town has been awarded a $40,000 grant that is slated to go toward the construction of a Revolutionary War memorial, according to a report from Your Arlington. The funds are […]
W.E.B. Du Bois Statue Unveiling Set Saturday
A life-size sculpture of civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois will be unveiled in his hometown this Saturday at 2 p.m. The bronze sculpture, created by artist Richard Blake, will sit on […]
Nantucket’s Revolutionary Balancing Act – Neutrality, Whaling, and Survival
While Massachusetts was a hotbed of revolutionary fervor, the island of Nantucket charted a very different course, one guided not by pacifism, diplomacy, and economic survival. During the American Revolution, […]
