New England Historical Society New England History
Why did anyone bother to build Barkhamsted Lighthouse in the hills of Western Connecticut? According to legend it ...
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Arts and Leisure
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Flattery Will Get You Everywhere: Ten Ways to Charm in 1780
Isaiah Thomas is best known as a newspapermen and supporter of the American Revolution. But as a printer ...
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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
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Jilts, Flams and Jibber the Kibber – The Art of Lying in Colonial Times
Business and Labor
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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A Revolutionary Currency Crash – The Story of William Beadle
By the opening of the American Revolution, William Beadle was a successful merchant and patriot. He contributed to ...
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How the Thoreau Pencil Wrote, and Paid for, Walden
The Thoreau pencil was a triumph in Henry David Thoreau’s lifetime, overshadowed since by the posthumous fame of ...
Read More »Politics and Military
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In 1777 a Deadly Fog of War Swept Across Vermont and Claimed John Irish
On a hot summer day, July 27, 1777, John Irish, a Quaker farmer, had just finished threshing his ...
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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
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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
