All posts tagged "laws"
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3.9K4Business and LaborFlashback Photo: Connecticut Cracks Down on the Horseless Carriage With the 1st Speed Limit
On May 21, 1901, the Connecticut Legislature passed a speed limit law aimed at mitigating a brand-new menace on the roads: the...
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5.7K7Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: The Country School, 1871
Winslow Homer painted this scene of a country school in 1871, nearly two decades after Massachusetts became the first state to pass...
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12.5K5MassachusettsThe Mill River Flood of 1874, A Preventable Tragedy
On May 16, 1874, the cheap and shoddy Mill River dam collapsed, killing 139 people and wiping out four towns in western...
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7.7K13Business and LaborAnn Smith Franklin, First Lady of Rhode Island Journalism
Ann Smith Franklin was actually one of two Franklins who left Boston for another coastal city to start up a newspaper and...
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11.0K10New HampshireThe New Hampshire Pine Tree Riot of 1772
New Hampshire’s oppressive pine tree laws sparked a little-known colonial uprising in 1772 called the Pine Tree Riot. An early test of British...
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4.0K3New HampshireCount Rumford, The Loyalist Ben Franklin
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
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10.5K18MassachusettsBefore the Famine Ships, The Irish Made Their Mark in New England
When the Irish famine ships arrived in Boston in the 1840s, tens if not hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Ireland already...
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6.2K12MassachusettsFrances Perkins Works for God, FDR and the Common Workingman
Frances Perkins was having tea with her friend, Mrs. Gordon Norris, in New York City, on the afternoon of March 25, 1911, when...
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30.2K24Crime and ScandalBlack Sam Bellamy, the Pirate Who Fought Smart, Harmed Few, Scored Big
Black Sam Bellamy became the wealthiest pirate in history not because of greed but because of anger – anger at the English...
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16.0K5MassachusettsThe Ageless Love Story of John and Abigail Adams
The enduring love story of John and Abigail Adams began with a whimper rather than a bang in 1762. They met in...
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