All posts tagged "basketball"
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4.5K1Politics and MilitaryBuffalo Soldiers Come Out to Vermont
In July of 1909, 750 African-American men known as Buffalo soldiers arrived at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, Vt., near the small...
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5.3K4New England PlacesThe Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Six Historic Opera Houses
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
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3.9K2Arts and LeisureEdwin Henderson Proves Black Men Can Jump
In 1906, many white Americans believed black Americans were poor at sports. An African-American physical education teacher named Edwin Henderson was at...
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15.4K4Arts and LeisureIn 1895, William Morgan Invents Mintonette
Mintonette, the game eventually called volleyball, was the brainchild of a man who happened to be friends with the man who invented...
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19.8K22Arts and LeisureMaine’s Great Clam Chowder War of 1939
A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he drafted a bill to criminalize clam...
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4.9K5Arts and LeisureHow Basketball History (and Basketball) Was Made in Springfield, Mass., in 1891
If it weren’t for a bad case of cabin fever, basketball history would never have been made. Nor, for that matter, would...
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