Today’s History Highlights Archive
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14.0K4Moses Davis, The Maine Cabinetmaker Who Built a Fort
A wooden blockhouse that still stands by the Sheepscot River is the unlikely legacy of a cabinetmaker named Moses Davis who strongly disagreed...
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52.9KThe 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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16.4KThe 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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9.5KJackie 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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8.6KThe 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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8.2KSix Stops From the People’s Guide to Greater Boston
One of our favorite books of 2020 is the People’s Guide to Greater Boston, a tour guide that goes beyond the usual...
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