Today’s History Highlights Archive
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9.1KPaul Robeson Moves To Enfield, Conn.
In 1941, the most famous black man in the world moved with his wife and son to a 12-room Colonial house in...
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49.1KThe Mayflower Love Children: Elinor, Jasper, Richard and Mary More
For centuries, historians thought the four young More children who arrived on the Mayflower were homeless orphans. Not until 1959 did a...
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12.6KThe Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857
The Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857 prostrated New England during the winter of 1856-57, one of the worst ever. Thirty-two...
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5.6KJackie and Rachel Robinson, A Love Story
On Feb. 10, 1945, Jackie and Rachel Robinson got married in a big church wedding in Los Angeles. Two weeks later they...
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4.2KThe Nutshell Studies: Frances Glessner Lee and the Dollhouses of Death
In 1929, a depressed, divorced 51-year-old society matron decided to take up murder as a hobby. Frances Glessner Lee had just closed...
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5.1KThe Story of Love Story: How Erich Segal Won Fame and Lost a Career
Before he wrote Love Story in 1968, Professor Erich Segal was a star on Yale’s campus. Not because he taught ancient Greek...
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