Celebrating the Smithsonian Institution’s 175th Anniversary By Donna K. Keesling On August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Institution celebrated its 175th anniversary. You probably know the Smithsonian by its many artifacts [...]
America’s First Fourth of July By J. L. Bell, boston1775.net As the latest The Pursuit of History Historical Moments mailing quoted, John Adams praised the Continental Congress’s vote for independence [...]
A Trip Down History Lane: Reading My Way Through the Pandemic By Dr. Michael Shire The innocent question asked by grandchildren to their grandparents, ‘What did you do during the [...]
Katharine Gibbs: Pioneering American Business Executive By Rose Doherty Women will be in public life from now on. However, this societal change did not happen quickly and was the result [...]
National Parks Posters from the WPA Era By Joanna Wendel In honor of The Pursuit of History’s limited edition screenprint of Fort Ticonderoga, designed in the iconic style of [...]
The Lafayette Trail Traces a Noteworthy Path By Joanna Wendel The Marquis de Lafayette played a major role in the American Revolution and helped build an enduring friendship between France [...]
Nellie Tayloe Ross: The First Female Governor By Joanna Wendel January 2021 will be remembered as the inauguration of Kamala Harris, the United States’ first female vice president. But this [...]
Honoring a Remarkable Life: The William B. Gould Memorial Project By Joanna Wendel Over the summer, as he watched statues fall around the country, Brian Keaney began to think about [...]
I have loved history my whole life. I love the story of history – that’s what connects us to it because the story is how we relate to people in [...]
Gravestone Girls: Bringing New England Cemeteries to Life By Joanna Wendel Most people take their Halloween decorations out of storage every October and then pack them away until the following [...]
History has an important place in our lives. You understand how important it is to appreciate our past, and how it connects to our present. Like you, we believe that [...]
The Lucy Burns Museum: Shedding light on a dark episode in the history of women’s suffrage By Joanna Wendel August 18, 2020 marked the centennial of the ratification of the [...]
When we had to cancel our in-person History Camps this year, we wanted to find a unique way to connect people to history and to historic sites across the country. [...]
American Panorama: Mapping History for the Twenty-First Century By Joanna Wendel What is a map? Fundamentally, it’s a tool, a visual record of the surface of the world. Yet maps [...]
America’s Summer Roadtrip The Pursuit of History puts on annual History Camps that bring together people from all walks of life for a day of learning and sharing. When we [...]
From History Camp to The Pursuit of History In late 2013, Lee Wright approached three authors and bloggers in the Boston area and proposed that they adapt the format that [...]
Witness to the Revolution: Decoding the Boston Massacre By Joanna Wendel Imagine yourself pacing the narrow streets of Boston on a chilly morning in 1770. The night before, March 5, [...]
History Test Scores Have Dropped By Kayla Schultz The state of public education has been and always will be a hot topic of conversation. While many of those conversations veer [...]
We feel that The Pursuit of History is more important now than ever. Lee was in the back of an Uber coming from the airport when we decided that we [...]
History at Home By Joanna Wendel Although shelter-in-place orders may be lifting gradually, most of us will still be spending more time than usual at home in the coming months—which [...]