Religion and Social Movements
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3.0KThe Brahmin Celebrity Priest Who Wrote O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Little Town of Bethlehem was written by a parish priest considered to be the greatest preacher of his day. His name...
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6.6KThe Multitude of Salem Witch Trials Descendants
If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
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3.6KSilver Artifacts Discovered at Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site
The recent discovery of the Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site by Jeff Craig is revealing exciting new details as the archaeological evaluation of this...
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3.5K6 Fun Facts About Ezekiel Cheever, Puritan Schoolmaster
Ezekiel Cheever taught Latin, writing and arithmetic to the children of New England’s first Puritans for 70 years. He taught in New...
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3.2KWhen Elizabeth Cady Stanton Met Lucretia Mott, the Women’s Movement Began (Supposedly)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a skilled propagandist who sometimes creatively remembered events in order to make a point. Or, to put it...
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4.6KBenjamin Roberts Fights To Integrate Massachusetts Schools—and Wins in 1855
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
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