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2.6KZouaves and Contrabands: Winslow Homer’s Civil War
Before the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and...
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3.3KThe Working Girls Vacation Society: Keeping the ‘Sin’ Out of ‘Single’
During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some...
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4.4KSandwich Glass Builds a Cape Cod Town
In 1907, a businessman named Cardenio F. King arrived in the Cape Cod town of Sandwich, Mass., to a hero’s welcome. He...
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8.2KSt. Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Model for the New England Meetinghouse
New Englanders visiting Trafalger Square in London often get a shock when they see the façade of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The famous parish...
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4.2KA Brief, Mostly Nonmusical History of Baked Beans
Do not mess with a New Englander over the proper way to cook baked beans. You soak them, you parboil them, you...
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4.8KThe Other Side of the Boston Tea Party
Every story has two sides, and the other side of the Boston Tea Party is rarely told. But the merchants responsible for...
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