Topics for every interest:

• The Blizzard of `78 (Alan has written two books on the epic event: Greater Boston’s Blizzard of 1978 and White Apocalypse)

 

•  Anarchist attacks and Red Scare Repressions – A look back at the Red Scare years in Massachusetts (1919 -1921)

 

•  Digital Equipment Corporation—One of most vital companies in the history of computing that once called Massachusetts home (Alan is author of Digital Equipment Corporation – Arcadia Publishing)

 

•  US ARMY Natick Lab – an amazing history of research to benefit the American war fighter. (Alan is author of US Army Natick Lab – Arcadia Publishing)

 

•  Massachusetts, the Library State – all about the firsts, the innovations, the architecture, and more!

 

• The Rise and fall (and rise) of the Route 128 tech economy (Alan is author of Route 128 and the Birth of the Age of High Tech)

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• Mass. State Forests and the CCC – a look at how local foresight, often aided by the Depression-era “tree army” helped create our familiar and beloved state forests

 

•  Michael Earl, S.J. – The Catholic Lion of early 20th Century American Literature. Well connected, prolific, and talented, Michael Earls was a key figure in the public life of the Catholic Church in the first third of the 20th century

 

• The French Canadians in Massachusetts – an appreciation with a special focus on Southbridge, Mass.

 

• The New Boston. Boston has arrived. But two generations ago, it was struggling. The New Boston was a catch phrase to describe the amazing transition engineered by entrepreneurs, city and state officials, and the federal government. Alan covered Boston redevelopment as editor of s/f magazine and has interviewed many of the key players of the past.

 

• Detroit East – The Surprising History of Motor Vehicles in Massachusetts. Trucks, motorcycles, even the Rolls-Royce were once made in Mass., along with many important innovations.

 

• The electric car, past, present and future – with a Massachusetts Perspective

 

• The Great Stone Fleet: An unusual strategy for fighting the Confederacy hatched in Southeastern Massachusetts

 

•  Springfield and Watertown; America’s arsenals of democracy (Alan is the author of Watertown Arsenal and Editor of the reprint edition of the official history)

 

• Springfield Armory and the Birth of Precision Manufacturing

 

•   Massachusetts Biomedical Industry: A surprising story of innovation and lives transformed

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