New Hampshire
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4.5KPuritan Child Killers: Hannah Duston and Her Sister
Hannah Duston and Elizabeth Emerson both confessed to the Rev. Cotton Mather about the children they’d killed. Hannah had tomahawked six native...
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1.5KDartmouth Starts a Campus Navy in World War II
Eighteen-year-old George Berkowitz, wearing his brand-new Marine uniform, lined up in military order with his Dartmouth College classmates and awaited his orders....
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2.3KThe Working Girls Vacation Society: Keeping the ‘Sin’ Out of ‘Single’
During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some...
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6.3KSt. Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Model for the New England Meetinghouse
New Englanders visiting Trafalger Square in London often get a shock when they see the façade of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The famous parish...
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3.0KA 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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