Religion and Social Movements
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27.6K21Anti-Irish Know Nothing Mob Burns a Charlestown Convent in 1834
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
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7.9K3Anna Lowell Woodbury, The Forgotten Cambridge Chef Who Pioneered Industrial Education
Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women — including poor...
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10.2K2Connecticut Methodist Camp Meeting Leads to Murder (Pt. 2)
The following is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part, click here. Methodist Camp Meetings were key to...
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10.7K11Methodists vs. Millgirls in the Murder Trial of the Century (Pt. 1)
Everyone agrees on one thing about the Methodists and the mill girl: On December 21, 1832, Sarah Cornell was found dead. A...
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