All posts tagged "disease"
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3.5KPolitics and MilitaryHow Samuel de Champlain Started a War
Among his many accomplishments, which include founding Quebec City and mapping New France, Samuel de Champlain started a war. Born into a...
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6.7K2ConnecticutDutch Elm Disease, the Nightmare on Elm Street
When Dutch elm disease first appeared in southwestern Connecticut, horrified New Englanders responded immediately to save their beloved elms, state agriculture experts...
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9.9K2Arts and LeisureThe Real People Behind Little Women
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
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11.3KMassachusettsThe Buzzards Bay Leper Colony: Tragic Exile
Around the turn of the 20th century, a terrifying new kind of immigrant arrived in Massachusetts: the sufferer of Hansen’s disease. If...
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7.9KReligion and Social MovementsThe Vermont Eugenics Survey Purifies the Population’s Polluted Protoplasm
The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...
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6.4KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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7.2KBusiness and LaborSix New England Places To Learn About Irish History
Outside of Ireland, New England may be one of the best places to explore Irish history. After all, many people of Irish...
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5.4K3Politics and MilitaryChamplain, the Irish Lake
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact,...
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6.3KArts and LeisureNorman Mailer Pans the Jackie Kennedy White House Tour
Three out of every four Americans watched the Jackie Kennedy White House tour on television on Feb. 14, 1962. During the broadcast,...
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8.7K1MassachusettsAnnie Sullivan Escapes the Poorhouse (But Not the Stigma of Being Poor and Irish)
Annie Sullivan overcame her disability and crushing poverty to win worldwide fame as the teacher of the deaf-blind Helen Keller. But to...
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