Massachusetts
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4.1KBrahmin Anti-Semites Fight the Brandeis Nomination to the Supreme Court
Louis Brandeis didn’t become one of the greatest Supreme Court justices ever without a dogfight. The bitter battle over the Brandeis nomination...
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2.9KStephen Higginson Tells Fish Stories To Parliament In 1771 and Gets Arrested For It
In 1771, the British government desperately needed to know how American colonists felt about fishing policies. Stephen Higginson filled them in, and...
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3.1KThe She-She-She Camps of the Great Depression
The Civilian Conservation Corps gave millions of young men a job and their families a lifeline with money they sent home every...
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5.4KMelvil Dewey, the Womanizing OCD Librarian who Organized the Olympics
Melvil Dewey had an obsession with the number 10. He slept 10 hours, wrote 10-page letters and created the Dewey Decimal System...
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3.7KJudah Touro – The Savior of the Bunker Hill Monument
The Bunker Hill Monument that overlooks Charlestown, Mass. was only built because Judah Touro, a somewhat reclusive New Orleans merchant, stepped in...
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5.5KSix Paintings of New England Spring
Artists have probably created far fewer New England spring paintings than of any of the three other seasons. After all, New England...
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