New Hampshire
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4.3K5Lincoln Memorial: A New England Prodigy’s Masterpiece
The Lincoln Memorial was the work of a New Englander with connections to the right people. That’s not to say Daniel Chester French...
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1.9KTornadoes, Mapmaking, and Peace Treaties in Today’s History Highlights – 7.26.2013
If you need someone to ask directions, the job goes to a woman. It was ever thus. In exploring its archive of...
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14.3K13Black Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
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39.3K14The Greatest Submarine Rescue Ever: Saving the Squalus
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...
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6.5K3Austin Corbin, New Hampshire Robber Baron – ‘We do not like the Jews…’ (Pt. 2)
The following is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. In July of 1879, Austin Corbin put...
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9.8K8Austin Corbin, The ‘Part-Hog, Part-Shark’ Robber Baron of New Hampshire
In the history of New Hampshire, Austin Corbin stands out as probably the most loathsome blight the state ever produced. So perhaps...
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