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William Tudor fell in love with a loyalist. It was an awkward position for a rebel who would become the first judge...
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9.4K5Elbridge Gerry, the Unfairly Maligned Revolutionary Who Approved the Gerrymander
Marbleheaders today will tell you it’s too bad Elbridge Gerry is best remembered for the creation of oddly shaped and highly partisan...
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The first invention ever patented by Thomas Edison did not go over well with his target customers: politicians. It was an automatic...
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29.8K5The 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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21.0K4U.S. Figure Skating: From a Flooded Field in Cambridge to the Olympic Games
Figure skating in America owes much to the flooding of a field belonging to a daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the...
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20.8K4Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce: The Battle for the Mentally Ill
Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts...
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