All posts tagged "diaries"
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13.1K20MassachusettsA Day in the Life of Louisa May Alcott, Civil War Nurse
Louisa May Alcott, Civil War nurse, was 500 miles from her home in Concord, Mass., alone, doing painful duties all day long...
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13.4K13Arts and LeisureJohn Quincy Adams Complains About Kissing
On Jan. 2, 1788, John Quincy Adams was a 20-year-old Harvard graduate studying law with Theophilus Parsons in Newburyport, Mass. As a...
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9.8K4MassachusettsCaleb Haskell Misses Benedict Arnold’s Attack on Quebec
On New Year’s Eve 1775, Caleb Haskell was lucky to be recovering from smallpox in a house miles from the Battle of...
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10.9K1Connecticut300 Years of New England Christmas
The New England Christmas started out as an ordinary work day for Puritans who frowned on the papist revelry of their Anglican...
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15.8K7Politics and MilitaryMaine Timbers Shore Up the British Navy in 1666
There was nothing like a shipment of white pine Maine timbers from the New England colonies to cheer up a British Royal...
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16.3K9Crime and ScandalThomas Kemble, The Kissing Puritan
Capt. Thomas Kemble was a prominent ship’s captain in the 1650s in Massachusetts, but that didn’t stop him from getting into trouble...
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