All posts tagged "Charles II"
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7.8K1ConnecticutConnecticut Battles Pennsylvania in the Pennamite Wars
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of the Revolutionary era. They also resulted in the...
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5.2KMassachusettsThe Great Puritan Periwig Controversy
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
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5.4K1Politics and MilitaryJames Mitchell Varnum Gets His Way After 218 Years
James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
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5.3KArts and LeisureSix Places That Appear on the Back of a Quarter
From 1999 through 2008, the 50 State Quarter program released commemorative quarters with unique designs for each state. Half of all Americans...
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6.4K1MassachusettsThe 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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7.5K4MainePuritans Name, Shame and Take Over Anglican Maine
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...
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18.2K1Rhode IslandObadiah Holmes, The Baptist Martyr The Puritans Should Have Left Alone
The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts viewed Obadiah Holmes as a loathsome Baptist, and they ordered him whipped 30 times in public. They...
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4.7K4New 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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19.8K8ConnecticutWhen Cleveland Belonged to Connecticut
The City of Cleveland and nearly all of Northeastern Ohio once belonged to Connecticut. The land, 3.5 million acres of it, was...
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9.2K4Religion and Social MovementsBenedict Arnold and the Rhode Island Quakers, Ranters and Heretics
Rhode Island Quakers had cause to esteem Benedict Arnold more than a century before his descendant brought disgrace to his name. In...
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