All posts tagged "documents"
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5.3K1MassachusettsHarriet Jacobs, Enslaved, Tells of Her #MeToo Moments. No One Believes Her.
Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...
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30.1K2Politics and MilitaryThe MTL Insanity File of Robert Todd Lincoln Discovered
Robert Todd Lincoln burned most of his papers and correspondence before he died. Most, but not all. He saved a collection of...
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8.0K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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4.9K5New England PlacesSix New England Places That Became A Fictional Setting
Practically any place in New England could become a fictional setting, given the region’s strong literary tradition and distinctive landscape. Good writers...
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4.3KMassachusettsA French Medicine Man Confronts Yankee Morality in 1788
In 1788 Pierre de Sales Laterrière traveled from Canada to Massachusetts to study medicine. Born around 1743, he had been a practicing...
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8.6K10MassachusettsThe Boston Post Road Historical Markers That Get The Facts Wrong
The historical markers along the Boston Post Road are many, but their history is often fake. Since 1673, post riders have ridden...
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39.7K14MassachusettsJFK Redesigns Air Force One
Air Force One looks the way it does because President John F. Kennedy sat on the floor of the Oval Office with...
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5.0K1Arts and LeisureThe Faulkner Murals Come to Life After Three Long Years
In 1933, a government building boom was on to lift the nation out of the Great Depression. The new National Archives building...
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16.6K8Crime and ScandalThe Kid Wrongly Blamed for the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Stanley Tomaszewski was a 16-year-old busboy working on the night of the Cocoanut Grove fire, Nov. 28, 1942, the Saturday after Thanksgiving....
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9.6K13MassachusettsThe Heroic Last-Minute Rescue of the Old South Meeting House
Of all the dramatic events that took place at Boston’s Old South Meeting House, the battle to save it from destruction in...
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