All posts tagged "apprenticeship"
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15.2KPolitics and MilitaryAmbrose Burnside, The Sideburned Civil War Commander Who Didn’t Want The Job
When Ambrose Burnside received his orders to take command of the Army of the Potomac in November of 1862, it was said...
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4.8KArts and LeisureWinthrop Chandler, Disappointed Limner
When Winthrop Chandler died on July 29, 1790, his obituary in the Massachusetts Spy noted that he “could guide the pencil of...
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7.3K6MassachusettsIsaiah Thomas Reads the Declaration of Independence
Isaiah Thomas, America’s first great publisher, spent several years during the American Revolution just scraping to get by. Thomas’s years of struggle...
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