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3.6KThe Mashpee Nine and the Fight Over Cape Cod Land
On the moonless night of July 29, 1976, a group of young Mashpee Wampanoag men sat around a campfire, talking quietly. Some...
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3.3KThe Crucible Revisited, or How Arthur Miller Got Witch Hunting Right
The following is a responsa to an article published in these pages under the title ‘The Crucible, or How Arthur Miller Got...
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3.0KThe Jurassic Armored Mud Balls of the Connecticut River Valley
Among the oldest sources of local pride in the Connecticut River Valley are the rare and rarely seen Jurassic Armored Mud Balls....
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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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3.9KDavid Walsh, the Gay Senator Who Never Visited a Nazi Spy Brothel in Brooklyn
In 1942, the New York Post accused David Walsh, U.S. senator from Massachusetts, of patronizing a gay brothel near the Brooklyn Navy...
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