All posts tagged "FDR"
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2.7KScience and NaturePolio Makes Its U.S. Debut in Vermont’s Otter Creek Valley in 1894
In June of 1894, a strange nervous disease attacked several children in Vermont’s Otter Creek Valley. It started as a summer cold,...
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2.4KCrime and ScandalJohn Revelstoke Rathom, the Phony Who Propagandized the U.S. Into War
It was November 1915, and the Great War in Europe was in its second year. But the German ambassador to the United...
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6.2KBusiness and LaborCamp Edwards, Cape Cod’s World War II City
One year before Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought the United States would never enter World War II. They might have thought otherwise...
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4.1KMassachusettsSeven Fun Facts About Joseph Kennedy, Father of a Dynasty
One summer day in the early 1960s, Joseph Kennedy was sitting in his wheelchair in front of his Hyannis Port home,as a...
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4.5KArts and LeisureThe She-She-She Camps of the Great Depression
The Civilian Conservation Corps gave millions of young men a job and their families a lifeline with money they sent home every...
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11.7KNew HampshireThe New Hampshire Recount That Went On For 19 Months
Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...
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