Politics and Military
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10.3KThe New Hampshire Recount That Went On For 19 Months
Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...
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3.9KJoseph Brant, Mohawk Leader, Goes to Dartmouth (Before It Was Dartmouth)
On Aug. 1, 1761, three teenaged Mohawk boys arrived on horseback at Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. Two, Nickus...
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5.1KSix Fun Facts About Henry Adams
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
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4.0KGeorge Scigliano, Lost Leader of Boston’s North End
George Scigliano won the reverence of Boston’s North End for vanquishing the money lenders, criminals and labor bosses who preyed on poor...
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4.3KThe Book that Taught Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln How To Speak
In 1830 and 1831, a 12-year-old Maryland slave and a 22-year-old backwoods store clerk picked up the same book – the Columbian...
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5.9KJohn Hersey Tells the Truth About Hiroshima
After the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. government censored the truth about the terrible carnage the atomic explosion wrought....
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