New Hampshire
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5.1KHow the Irish Immigrants Came to New England
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
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7.8KThe Battle for The Meeting House Bell – That Wouldn’t End
What’s a meeting house without a meeting house bell to summon townspeople? Customarily, early New England villages included a meeting house –...
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8.7KThe 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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5.0KHenry Savage Puts The Showgirls in the Broadway Show
At age 20, Mildred Taylor Mills’ future seemed stable. Heir to her father’s modest fortune, the Westport, Conn., girl was “for a...
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19.3KRichard Potter, Celebrity Black Magician of the 19th Century
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
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11.8KThe New Hampshire Recount That Went On For 19 Months
Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...
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