All posts tagged "camp"
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5.6KArts and LeisureThe She-She-She Camps of the Great Depression
The Civilian Conservation Corps gave millions of young men a job and their families a lifeline with money they sent home every...
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16.3K1Politics and MilitaryThe Irish-American Army That Attacked Canada from a Vermont Farm
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
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15.2K1MassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Abolished the State Police
In 1875, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the state police department. It was only 10 years old, the first state police force...
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15.7K4MassachusettsJames Somerset, the Boston Runaway Who Ended Slavery in England
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. From there, he would be...
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11.9KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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11.4K2MassachusettsWhen 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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