Politics and Military
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1.0KDisaster in Rhode Island Waters: The USS Bennington
On the early morning of May 26, 1954, fighter jets started to catapult into the air from the USS Bennington (CVA 20),...
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2.5KHow Samuel de Champlain Started a War
Among his many accomplishments, which include founding Quebec City and mapping New France, Samuel de Champlain started a war. Born into a...
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7.3KMaine Statehood: The Mexit From Massachusetts in 1820
The story of Maine statehood is also the story of a province and a people exploited by absentee owners and left defenseless...
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5.7KSamuel Cranston, Rhode Island’s 30-Term Governor
Rhode Island’s Governor Samuel Cranston won election as Rhode Island’s governor 30 times, twice in one year. No other governor surpassed Cranston’s...
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3.3K2New England’s Gun Valley, Child of the Springfield Armory
New England’s Gun Valley began with George Washington, who in 1777 scouted the site on an old Puritan muster ground in Springfield,...
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5.3K1Saint-Castin, the French Baron Who Drove the English From Maine
A 13-year-old son of a French baron named Jean-Vincent d’Abaddie de Saint-Castin arrives in Maine in 1665 to quell the Iroquois and...
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2.4KTop FDR Advisor Isador Lubin Accused of Pro-Soviet Views
When Isador Lubin walked out of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 1950, he must have been...
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4.7KRichard Cutts (Unintentionally) Avenges the War of 1812
With friends like Richard Cutts, James Madison didn’t need enemies. Though Cutts was the rare New Englander who supported Mr. Madison’s War,...
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4.8KWhy Glenn Miller Has a Memorial Stone in a New Haven Cemetery
Swing bandleader Glenn Miller was born in Iowa, grew up in the Midwest, got famous in New York City, lived in New...
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