All posts tagged "debt"
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18.3K18Business and LaborThe Great New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860
The great shoemakers strike of 1860 began with 3,000 Lynn, Mass., shoe workers who deliberately chose George Washington‘s birthday to start their righteous rebellion....
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9.5K1Politics and MilitaryThe Civil War Love Letter of Sullivan Ballou
Just before he died, Union Army Maj. Sullivan Ballou sat down in Washington, D.C., to write a love letter to his wife...
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5.7K10MassachusettsTrade, Taxes, Monopolies and Tea: A Revolutionary Brew
On every December 16th, it’s hard not to turn your mind back to the year 1773 when the most famous protest of...
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15.7K12Business and LaborBabson’s Boulders: A Millionaire’s Odd Dogtown Legacy
Eccentric millionaire Roger Babson had an unusual hobby that mortified his family: During the Great Depression, he hired unemployed stonecutters to carve...
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10.7K15ConnecticutStep Right Up! 14 Little-Known Facts About The Entertaining Life of P.T. Barnum
Think you know all about P.T. Barnum, newspaper editor, progressive mayor and hospital founder? Though a legend for his hoaxes and his...
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8.6K5IrregularsManasseh Cutler, Ipswich Minister Who Set Off the Great Westward Migration
Manasseh Cutler, a Congregationalist minister, left his home in Ipswich, Mass., to help build the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory....
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