All posts tagged "Dartmouth"
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8.4K1Arts and LeisureSix Historic College Pranks and Where They Were Played
College pranks have been part of the college experience since at least the 13th century, when Oxford students sent a prostitute to...
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3.9K1ConnecticutNine New England Tax Resisters
Abolition, war and injustice have inspired tax resisters in New England since even before the American Revolution. And well after the American...
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3.6KBusiness and LaborIn 1770 Silversmith Samuel Casey Narrowly Escaped the Gallows
Samuel Casey was a talented, well-respected silversmith in Kingstown, R.I in the mid-1700s. Casey made teapots, tankards, and porringers as well as...
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8.4KNew England PlacesSix Historic Love Nests
In honor of Valentines Day, the New England Historical Society chose to highlight six love nests. Love nests can be lavish mansions...
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4.3K3Massachusetts8 Things You Didn’t Know About New England Olympians
Ever since a Bostonian won the first event in the first modern Olympics, New England has sent more than its share of...
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8.4K5MainePuritans 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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