Religion and Social Movements
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5.0K6 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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4.9KWhen 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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7.4KBenjamin 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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10.3KA. Philip Randolph, the Dean of the Civil Rights Movement
Of the thousands of people who go in and out of Boston’s Back Bay commuter rail station every day, how many pass...
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10.4KMary Bliss Parsons, the Witch of Northampton
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
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11.1K1Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Discovery Acknowledged
The Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty site discovery by Jeff Craig has been welcomed by historians and Thoreau enthusiasts alike, for little was known about...
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