food Archives - New England Historical Society

Italian Thanksgiving, or How One Ethnic Group Resisted Americanization

The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....

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Arts and Leisure

Jacques Pepin, French From Connecticut

Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...

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Arts and Leisure

The Mark Twain Fantasy Menu

Mark Twain liked a good meal, a good cigar and a good cocktail. During a trip to Europe in the 1880s, he...

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New Hampshire

How the Londonderry Scots-Irish Saved New Hampshire from Massachusetts

The Londonderry Scots-Irish prevented New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by being fruitful and multiplying along the border. Massachusetts had taken over...

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Massachusetts

Seven 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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Politics and Military

Loyalists 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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Massachusetts

When Massachusetts Was a Paradise for Tramps

So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...

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Connecticut

Horror Stories About Revolutionary Prisoners Inflame the Colonies

Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionary prisoners incarcerated in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death...