All posts tagged "Dartmouth"
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14.0KNew 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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7.3K3Massachusetts8 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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12.0K5MainePuritans 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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18.3K2Rhode IslandHow Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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21.8KToday's History Highlights ArchiveThe First Black Phi Beta Kappas of New England
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America’s oldest and most prestigious honor...
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9.0K2New England PlacesThe Historic Observatory, or Six New England Places to Gaze at the Stars
A historic observatory in New England could be a stone remnant on the Canadian border, a mountaintop clubhouse or a state-of-the-art, NASA-funded...
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