New Hampshire
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20.6K4Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce: The Battle for the Mentally Ill
Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts...
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6.3K2Alan Shepard Takes a Divot on the Moon
Alan Shepard was only the second person to enter space, but the first to hit a golf ball on the moon. On...
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22.4K18Ona Judge Staines, the Fugitive Slave Who Outwitted George Washington
During George Washington’s final months as president, a 20-year-old slave named Ona Judge Staines slipped out of the President’s House in Philadelphia....
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14.6K5The Wreck of the Magnifique Ends John Paul Jones’ American Naval Career
When the captain of the French ship Magnifique sailed in to Boston Harbor in the summer of 1782, he would have been...
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9.4K10New Hampshire Timber Baron Takes the Money and Runs
In 1892,timber baron James E. Henry bought 100,000 acres of virgin timber in Northern New Hampshire and began clear-cutting the White Mountains....
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9.0K3Bob Montana Brings Archie Comics to New Hampshire’s Lakes Region
Bob Montana drew his first Archie comic book in 1942 in a rented cottage on Lake Waukewan in Meredith, N.H. The character would...
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