Politics and Military
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2.1KBridgeport Elects a Socialist Mayor Again and Again and Again
Bridgeport, Conn., elected for 24 years a socialist mayor named Jasper McLevy, beloved in the city despite his friendship with a notorious...
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2.7K1Timothy Leary Gets the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act Overturned
Timothy Leary found out just how screwy America’s cannabis laws were when he got busted for violating the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act....
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2.8KOliver Otis Howard, The Mainer Who Founded Howard University
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was fighting the Civil War to preserve the Union, not to free any slaves. Howard had...
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3.3K4Nine Men’s Misery: ‘Oldest Veterans Memorial’ Honors Tortured Plymouth Colonists.
On the wooded grounds of an old monastery in Cumberland, R.I., a pile of stones stands next to a cement pillar with...
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4.2KThe 1790 Census: New England by the Numbers
Just after the American Revolution, Gilmanton, N.H., ranked as the 30th biggest municipality in the United States. The Lakes Region town was...
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4.3K4Four Days in May: The 1942 Rhode Island Forest Fires
On May 1, 1942, fire leveled more than 300 acres in the Limerock section of Lincoln, R.I. The source of ignition was...
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3.1K1Robert’s Rules of Order Born From Bickering in a New Bedford Church
For over a century, Robert’s Rules of Order have prevented countless petty arguments because an-out-of-control church meeting embarrassed a 25-year-old Army lieutenant....
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3.2K2The New England Defenders of the Alamo
Among the defenders of the Alamo, at least eight came from New England to start a new life. Those lives were cut...
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2.1K1Kendall Square Loses the Space Race to Houston
One of the great what-ifs in the history of metropolitan Boston is: What if NASA had moved to Kendall Square in Cambridge,...
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