Religion and Social Movements
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4.7KBanbury Cake, the Puritans’ Favorite Treat
On Dec. 24, 1706, Judge Samuel Sewall brought a Banbury cake to a sick friend in Boston. Sewall, best known as one...
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4.7KBrahmin Anti-Semites Fight the Brandeis Nomination to the Supreme Court
Louis Brandeis didn’t become one of the greatest Supreme Court justices ever without a dogfight. The bitter battle over the Brandeis nomination...
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3.0KThe Sentinelle Affair: Keeping The French in Franco American
In 1919, the Federation of Canadian Catholic Churches in America decided to tackle the need for better schools. Catholic parish schools served...
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6.3KMelvil Dewey, the Womanizing OCD Librarian who Organized the Olympics
Melvil Dewey had an obsession with the number 10. He slept 10 hours, wrote 10-page letters and created the Dewey Decimal System...
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6.5KNew Haven, ‘the Wickedest City’ – The Devil and Man At Yale in 1895
In 1895, hundreds of ministers and church leaders came to New Haven for a conference of the Christian Worker’s Association. Little did...
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4.2KHow the Irish Immigrants Came to New England
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
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