Early in 1836, nearly two hundred American men lost their lives defending the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, over the course of a thirteen-day siege. While this event is largely viewed through the lens of Texas and southern American history, several men from New England..
Continue reading[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
245 South Eighteenth Street, Wednesday,..
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For the last few months I have been working with Judi Garner of the Jewish Heritage Center, here at NEHGS, on an exhibit of twentieth-century Jewish photographers and their subjects, and we are finally finished. The photos are framed and hung; the labels have been..
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[Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared in Vita Brevis on 29 June 2015.]
Over the years I have had the chance to discuss the subject of ethnicity (and identity) with avid genealogists and..
Continue reading[Author’s note: This post concludes the series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary which began here.]
Many years ago, during a visit with my wife to her maternal grandparents, her grandfather asked if we could deliver some books which he had sold..
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Over the centuries, families have kept their own records of their history – by writing it in family Bibles; by sewing it into samplers and other needlework; by having it engraved onto objects; and sometimes by writing it into preprinted..
Continue reading[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]