Partnership of Historic Bostons
Partnership of Historic Bostons
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What They Left Behind: The English Politics the Puritans Rejected, with David Hall
Watch Harvard Divinity School's David Hall's brilliant lecture charting the reasons for New England's Puritans rejection of their social and political past - from deep inequality to bishops and royal prerogative. Given at Suffolk University, September 24, 2024.
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We take for granted the town meetings and elected officers of early Massachusetts, as well as its laws proclaiming individual rights and liberties for most free white men. But the Puritans in England could not.
In fact, in England these would have been seen dangerously radical - innovations anathema in a polity ruled largely by royal decree and marked by hierarchy and arbitrary rule, and liberties to which no ordinary person w...
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Boston: The Prequel
Просмотров 2822 месяца назад
We think of Boston, Massachusetts, as the starting point for the American Revolution. But the history of Boston far predates the 1770s - into the Middle Ages and beyond. Welcome to the forebears of Boston, Massachusetts - in the small town of Boston, Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. Few Americans have heard of it, but Boston, Lincolnshire, plays a unique role in US history as the sou...
Salem Witch Trials 1692: Interpreting History and Finding Relevance
Просмотров 1333 месяца назад
For those of us in New England, the story is all too familiar: in 1692, mounting hysteria led to the deaths of 25 innocent men, women and children in the Salem witch trials. Or is this account really all that familiar? This presentation, by Dan Lipcan and Paula Richter, two Peabody Essex Museum curators, charts the remarkably different ways we can understand the 1692 Salem witch trials. Taking ...
Unseen New England: Re-envisioning Black Presence in Early American Art
Просмотров 1694 месяца назад
American Folk Art Museum curator Emelie Gevalt explores the way that early New England art portrayed - or erased - its Black community
Recovering Black History in New England: A Workshop
Просмотров 1585 месяцев назад
Two pioneering historians show us how to un-erase Black history in this fascinating and unique workshop. You'll learn about the methods, sources and person-power you need to recover the stories often missing from local history - bringing people back into historical memory. Led by Jennifer Carroll, director of education at the Historical Society of Cheshire County, and Michelle Stahl, executive ...
Remembering the Brooks Family
Просмотров 6835 месяцев назад
What happens when people are made invisible? How can they be brought back to life, at least in historical memory? Archaeologist Gail Golec explores the burial grounds of southern New Hampshire and uncovers the powerful story of the Brooks family of Walpole, New Hampshire, and Westminister, Vermont - a Black family whose members lived and worked across a region normally considered entirely white...
Finding Anne Bradstreet
Просмотров 7506 месяцев назад
On the night of July 10, 1666, Anne Bradstreet was startled from sleep by her family’s screams of "fire, fire!" While everyone escaped the blaze unharmed, their house and belongings were destroyed. Bradstreet would later lament this fateful night in her poem “Verses upon the Burning of our House” - which gives voice to her grief, catalogs what was lost, and expresses her trust in God’s divine h...
Easy Money: New England Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency
Просмотров 2167 месяцев назад
Two years before hunting presumed witches, the Puritan Massachusetts elite invented a new type of money, one that was based on its acceptance by the state as legal tender for taxes rather than its gold content or any type of gold backing. Centuries later, this form of currency came to dominate the world. Why did it happen in Massachusetts? The English empire suffocated the renegade colony with ...
Puritans
Просмотров 439 месяцев назад
Why did English Puritans set sail in 1630 and settle in what they called New England? Professor of history at Suffolk University Robert J. Allison explains their motivations, their vision, and what it means today.
Origin stories: The Pequot War and Indigenous Enslavement in New England
Просмотров 2919 месяцев назад
Origin stories: The Pequot War and Indigenous Enslavement in New England
Stolen Relations: Centuries of Native American Enslavement in the Americas
Просмотров 2689 месяцев назад
Between 1492 and 1900, an estimated 2.5 million to 5 million Native Americans were enslaved in North, Central, and South America. Indigenous people were enslaved in every European colony, including colonial New England. How is it that we have overlooked such an important part of this history and its effects over time? In the fourth in our series, Enslavement & Resistance: New England, 1620-1760...
Race and Slavery at First Church in Roxbury
Просмотров 1309 месяцев назад
This powerful presentation by Harvard PhD candidate Aabid Allibhai, the Rev. Mary Margaret Earl, and Byron Rushing, lifelong activist and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, tells the story of the enslaved people linked to First Church in Roxbury. Groundbreaking research by Aabid Allibhai, commissioned by the Unitarian Universalist Church, explores just how entwined Bos...
Enslaved Christians: Black Church Members in the Era of Cotton Mather
Просмотров 3919 месяцев назад
Historian Richard Boles' nuanced and trenchant exploration of the role of Puritan theology in New England slavery, and the way that enslaved people shaped the society around them, is the fourth in our lecture series, Enslavement & Resistance: New England 1620-1760. From the late 17th century through the religious revivals of the mid-18th century, minister-theologians including Cotton Mather and...
Origin stories: The Pequot War and Indigenous Enslavement in New England
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Origin stories: The Pequot War and Indigenous Enslavement in New England
Built from Bondage: Slavery and the Colonization of New England, 1620-1700
Просмотров 66511 месяцев назад
This eye-opening presentation by historian Jared Hardesty, renowned expert in Massachusetts slavery and unfreedom, opened PHB's 2023 six-part series, Enslavement & Resistance: New England 1620-1760, with a trenchant exploration of the importance of slavery in the colonization of New England. Although slavery existed everywhere in early America, colonists in New England created a flexible and re...
A Constitutional Culture: New England's Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule
Просмотров 242Год назад
A Constitutional Culture: New England's Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule
Landscapes of Indenture: Scottish Prisoners of War in 17th Century New England
Просмотров 8 тыс.Год назад
Landscapes of Indenture: Scottish Prisoners of War in 17th Century New England
"By the Sword We Seek Peace" : Changing the Massachusetts Seal & Motto
Просмотров 352Год назад
"By the Sword We Seek Peace" : Changing the Massachusetts Seal & Motto
Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land
Просмотров 742Год назад
Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land
Parallel Universes: Puritan Congregationalism and Indigenous Society
Просмотров 282Год назад
Parallel Universes: Puritan Congregationalism and Indigenous Society
Forgotten Frontier: Maine & New Hampshire in the 17th Century
Просмотров 22 тыс.Год назад
Forgotten Frontier: Maine & New Hampshire in the 17th Century
Dispossession: Indigenous Land Loss in Plymouth Colony
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.Год назад
Dispossession: Indigenous Land Loss in Plymouth Colony
A Place of Persistence: Eastern Pequot Reservation Archaeology
Просмотров 336Год назад
A Place of Persistence: Eastern Pequot Reservation Archaeology
We Are the Land: The Power of Place in Indigenous Life
Просмотров 189Год назад
We Are the Land: The Power of Place in Indigenous Life
Whose Name, Whose Place? Native Placenames in Southern New England
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.2 года назад
Whose Name, Whose Place? Native Placenames in Southern New England
Cruel or courageous? A new reading of Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative.
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.2 года назад
Cruel or courageous? A new reading of Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative.
Who were the Puritans?
Просмотров 4712 года назад
Who were the Puritans?
The Pen of Justice: William Apess and his Eulogy on King William
Просмотров 4432 года назад
The Pen of Justice: William Apess and his Eulogy on King William
Key into the Language of America
Просмотров 3882 года назад
Key into the Language of America
Rebels, Radicals, and Rejects
Просмотров 2072 года назад
Rebels, Radicals, and Rejects