history

We talk with Martha’s Vineyard historian and author Tom Dresser about two of his most recent books.

We’ll discuss collections and exhibits, and we’ll talk about how museums offer community engagement and provide context for what is happening in our region today.

Janet Uhlar argues that without Dr. Joseph Warren’s pivotal contributions, American history would be profoundly different.

Yarmouthport resident David Bermudez is the oldest living veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion of June 28, 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back against a police raid at the New York City gay bar.

The study’s preliminary results support the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe’s belief that Burying Hill is an ancient burial ground for their ancestors.

Richard Nixon's White House counsel John Ehrlichman was staying at the Bartlett House when he made the call approving the White House plumbers' first mission.

Modernist architect Marcel Breuer's Wellfleet summer home has undergone a full restoration by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. Now it could play a role in college-level preservation courses.

The African Meeting House on Nantucket was consecrated in 1825. Two hundred years later, it still stands.

U.S. Coast Guard Certified Lampist Tom Cumella was on Nantucket this week lending his expertise to the Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, which has a lens that's due for a checkup.

Linda Coombs lives in Mashpee and wrote Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, which came out last year. A committee in Texas moved the book to fiction after an anonymous complaint.