Religion and Social Movements
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5.2K3Five Fast Facts About the New England Roots of W.E.B. Du Bois
The New England roots of W.E.B. Du Bois shaped his thought and his activism, and led to his rise as a leading...
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5.1K1In 1662 Robert Pike Halts a Quaker Persecution in Massachusetts
In 1662 three English Quakers arrived in Dover, N.H. It didn’t take long before the Puritan townspeople spoke up about the newcomers....
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4.3KA French Medicine Man Confronts Yankee Morality in 1788
In 1788 Pierre de Sales Laterrière traveled from Canada to Massachusetts to study medicine. Born around 1743, he had been a practicing...
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3.0KThe Prohibition Era Begins in Litchfield, Conn. in 1789
In 1789, Ephraim Kirby, Jebediah Strong, David Buel and more than 100 of their neighbors decided to swear off strong drink. They...
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12.8K2Halooing, Huzzahing, Roistering and Seven Other Outlaw Christmas Celebrations
In December 1771, New Hampshire’s Executive Council and General Court decided they’d had enough of Christmas merry-making. They, along with Governor John...
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13.6K3Did Thanksgiving Cost John Adams His Presidency? He Thought It Did
Today there is no doubt that across America Thanksgiving will be celebrated. But when John Adams was president, that was very much...
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6.4K1The Mysterious Rev. Josiah Baxter Murdered in Boston in 1673
In 1673 word reached England that the Rev. Josiah Baxter had been ruthlessly murdered in Boston. Baxter was an Anglican minister who...
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10.4KIn 1674 the Connecticut Rogerenes Test the Limits of Religious Freedom
The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn. in the late 1600s. They were named for...
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7.3K2Barkhamsted Lighthouse – Bringing Light to the Connecticut Hills
Why did anyone bother to build Barkhamsted Lighthouse in the hills of Western Connecticut? According to legend it was a love denied...
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4.4K1‘Sour Ale in Summer’ – The Puritan Beliefs of Charles Chauncy
In the early 1600s, the Anglican Church was under criticism from all manner of dissenters offering a wide variety of opinions on...
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