When it comes to American history, Massachusetts certainly had an early foot in the door. The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620; America’s witchcraft trials started in Salem in 1692; the “shot heard round the world” was fired in Lexington in 1775; and it’s where, like a hot tea kettle (Boston Tea Party, 1773) tensions between the British and the American colonists boiled over into the American Revolution. Looking at history through the lens of women who have made a