New England Historical Society New England History
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America's oldest ...
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Arts and Leisure
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How To Call Someone a Drunk in Colonial Times – From The Drinkers Dictionary
In 1737, at the age of 31, Boston-born Benjamin Franklin decided to point out the many phrases people ...
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Flattery Will Get You Everywhere: Ten Ways to Charm in 1780
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Chouses, Jigs and Fetches – Colonial Pranks You Never Heard Of
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Scollay Square and Tales From The Crawford House
Business and Labor
Small Bells of Connecticut: One Town Made Sounds That Rang in Millions of Ears
The small bells rung by Salvation Army soldiers during the Christmas holidays are all made in Connecticut. In ...
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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
On Nov. 5, 1872, Benjamin Briggs of Wareham, Mass. piloted the brigantine Mary Celeste to sea loaded with ...
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New Haven’s Jared Flagg Launches One of the First Ponzi Schemes
In 1926 the fraud police had Jared Flagg under questioning. It wasn't the first time the flimflam man ...
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The New England Opium Crisis of 1805
New England’s role in the opium trade in the early 1800s is a little-noted phenomenon. New England opium ...
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Robert Hallowell, British Tax Collector, Returns to Boston in 1792
Robert Hallowell served as the British tax collector in Boston. He first served as tax collector for Portsmouth, ...
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Samuel Adams – The Last Puritan Fights the American Revolution Twice
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John Clarke Guides the Pilgrims to Shore
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In 1777 a Deadly Fog of War Swept Across Vermont and Claimed John Irish
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Canada’s Confederate Plot Against St. Albans, Vermont
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François-Jean de Chastellux Meets 250 New Hampshire Cows in 1780
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12 Fascinating Facts About the Fourth of July
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Valcour Island – America’s Victorious Defeat on Lake Champlain
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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
