New England Historical Society New England History
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis ...
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Arts and Leisure
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Fambles, Giggs and Red Rags – A Guide to Early New England Physiology
In the 1600s if someone offered you a Pult in the Munns, you probably didn’t want it. They ...
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How the Balsams Resort Was Built on a Railroad Seat
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How To Talk Rhode Island
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Six (And More) Mothers Who Left a Mark on History
Business and Labor
The Panic of 1907 and the Maine Man Who Caused It
You might suppose the Federal Reserve banking system was begun in response to the great stock market crash ...
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The New England Town Crier, Part Ad Man, Part Comedian
Jimmy Wilson, Boston’s town crier for 50 years, was loved by the city’s children, and was once paid ...
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Six (And More) Mothers Who Left a Mark on History
Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. ...
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When the Music Stopped: Chickering and the Piano Wars of 1850
Chickering & Sons Piano Company was always a two-person operation. It needed a technical expert to make the ...
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Valcour Island – America’s Victorious Defeat on Lake Champlain
On October 11, 1776, British military forces finally drove the American military from Lake Champlain at the Battle ...
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The Privateer Liverpool Packet Torments Boston: The Evil Genius of Coastal Trade
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USS Squalus Rescue: World Awaits News of Sailors’ Fate
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Robert Remington Fights World War I
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The Massachusetts Scoundrel for Whom Downing Street is Named
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Josiah Bartlett, Founding Father, Gets Used to Wrongness
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The Gravesites of Six Revolutionary Heroines
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Epenow, the Wampanoag Who Conned His Way Home From England
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The Much-Maligned, Little-Mourned Crean Brush
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The Treasure of the Magnifique and the Lighthouse Keeper’s Tale
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The Canaan Mob and the Noyes Academy
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Fame, Fortune, Fire and Brimstone: The Legend of Jonathan Moulton
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Six Revolutionary Forts
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The Sumner League, Connecticut’s Forgotten Civil Rights Society
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William Apess Leads the Bloodless Mashpee Revolt of 1833
