Today’s History Highlights Archive
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737Is There a John La Farge in Your Town?
You just might be living near a John La Farge window if you live in Rhode Island or Massachusetts, and in any...
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7551John La Farge, The Artist Who Wanted To Crush Louis Comfort Tiffany
One day in the middle of the 1870s, a young glassmaker named Louis Comfort Tiffany visited John La Farge in his studio....
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918Samuel Smedley, Fairfield’s Boy Commander of the Connecticut Navy
Samuel Smedley captured a dozen British vessels during the American Revolution, but the biggest obstacle to greater glory was the stinginess of...
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1.8KDiscovery in the Attic: The Lost Work of Provincetown Artist Edith Lake Wilkinson
In 1924, someone packed a truck with the life work of Edith Lake Wilkinson – her woodblocks, prints, sketches and paintings. And...
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2.7KBenjamin Roberts Fights To Integrate Massachusetts Schools—and Wins in 1855
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
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