Religion and Social Movements
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6.1K1How John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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7.3K2When Massachusetts Was a Paradise for Tramps
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
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6.3K1The Great Puritan Periwig Controversy
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
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9.8K4Dwight L. Moody, Yankee Preacher, Meets Abe Lincoln in Little Hell
In 1860, a poor Yankee preacher named Dwight L. Moody met the Illinois rail-splitter, Abraham Lincoln, in a Chicago slum. Moody was...
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10.0K1Annie Sullivan Escapes the Poorhouse (But Not the Stigma of Being Poor and Irish)
Annie Sullivan overcame her disability and crushing poverty to win worldwide fame as the teacher of the deaf-blind Helen Keller. But to...
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4.7K1Louis Brandeis Celebrates Hanukkah in 1915
Louis Brandeis during Hanukkah in 1915 delivered a message to the Zionists of America that described the holiday as a celebration of...
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