My April, 2022 cover article for American History magazine, “Sisterhood at Lexington,” explores the important role that women played in nurturing revolution in Lexington, Mass. On April 19th, they bore […]
My article in the December, 2021 issue of Early American Life uses the 1829 and 1830 love letters of two New Englanders to offer an intimate peek into courtship, romance, […]
The April 2021 issue of American History Magazine includes my latest article, “Half in Love with Death,” on the scourge of consumption or “the White Plague” in the early Republic. […]
Check out my article in the February 2019 issue of Early American Life. “The Striped Pig – A Tale of Porcine Protest,” tells the story of wily Yankee protesters in […]
I’m thrilled to share that Declaring Independence: Then and New,” the joint program of Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area and the American Antiquarian Society, has received a national Award of […]
Reconsidering the Promises of the Declaration of Independence I’ve been busy this past spring and summer preparing scripts and narrating performances of Declaring Independence – Then and Now. The program is […]
American Antiquarian Society announces: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 – 6:00pm to 9:00pm Hands-On History Workshop Declaring Independence — Then and Now Lead Scholars: Danielle Allen and Mary Babson Fuhrer Co-Sponsored […]
I’m honored that Crisis of Community has been awarded the inaugural Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for best non-fiction book on Massachusetts history! Below is the announcement from the Massachusetts […]
I appreciate Johann Neem’s gentle review of A Crisis of Community in the April 2015 volume of the American Historical Review. I would not, however, like to leave readers with the […]
In the December 2014 issue of the Journal of American History, Shelby Balik gives a favorable review of Crisis of Community. She notes that, “Fuhrer shows how the grand narratives of the early […]
Mary Babson Fuhrer 