Massachusetts
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4.7KThe Extraordinary Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
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3.9KFrom Massachusetts Huts for Shipwreck Survivors Grew the U.S. Coast Guard
Sometime before the Civil War, Henry David Thoreau and his friend were hiking along the outer edge of Cape Cod when they...
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2.2KEdward Fitch, a Massachusetts Martyr in Bleeding Kansas
During the long struggle to abolish slavery in America, Edward Fitch did not hold political office. Nor did he serve as an...
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1.5KZouaves 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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2.3KThe 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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