New Hampshire
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6.0KNew Englanders Who Made it to the 1963 March on Washington
Fifty years ago when the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom electrified the nation, buses came from everywhere, filled with people...
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6.1K5Lincoln 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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2.8KTornadoes, 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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17.4K13Black 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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42.9K14The 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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8.9K3Austin 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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