All posts tagged "England"
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6.1KMassachusettsAbigail Adams Attacked Thomas Jefferson As No One Else Dared To Do
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
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11.1K2MassachusettsHow the Codfish Started the American Revolution
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
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5.8KPolitics and MilitaryThe Irish-American Army That Attacked Canada from a Vermont Farm
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
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5.4K1MassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Abolished the State Police
In 1875, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the state police department. It was only 10 years old, the first state police force...
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4.2KMassachusettsJames Somerset, the Boston Runaway Who Ended Slavery in England
In 1771, James Somerset languished in an English prison ship that would soon set sail for Jamaica. There, James Somerset would be...
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6.7KReligion 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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5.1KMassachusettsSeven 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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4.4K1Politics and MilitaryLoyalists and Patriots: Mary Munro Sent Packing to Canada During the Revolution
During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...
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3.1KArts and LeisureA Green Mountain Boy Stars in an 1839 Romance Novel, Heaving Bosoms and All
Green Mountain Boy Seth Warner might have been a forgotten Revolutionary War hero had he not appeared in an 1839 romance novel....
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3.5KArts and LeisureSix More Artist Homes In New England
The creative spirit that moves people to sculpt and paint also tends to inspire an interesting artist home. Lucrative commissions in the...
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