All posts tagged "founding fathers"
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4.4KPolitics and MilitaryIsrael Potter, Revolutionary POW, Hobnobs in Europe With a King and 2 Founding Fathers
Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War POW, spent 50 years in exile in England, where he met King George III, Benjamin Franklin and...
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11.8K10ConnecticutJohn Trumbull Gets a Few Things Wrong in His Famous Declaration of Independence Painting
Ten years after the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all...
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7.0K1New HampshireJosiah Bartlett, Founding Father, Gets Used to Wrongness
Dr. Josiah Bartlett saved his own life in the same spirit he signed the Declaration of Independence: by questioning authority. He was...
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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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8.1K3ConnecticutJohn Adams Has a Spa Day in 1771 – at Connecticut’s Fashionable Stafford Springs
The Revolutionary War disrupted the finances and ambitions of all the founding fathers, but none more than Dr. Joseph Warren and his...
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10.0K15Politics and MilitaryEat Like a President – The Founding Fathers’ Guide to New England Taverns
The first five U.S. presidents, the founding fathers, were all veteran travelers in New England. And in their travels, they left behind...
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3.4K3ConnecticutOliver Ellsworth: Founding Father and Yale Dropout
Oliver Ellsworth, the forgotten founding father, was a lawyer, a member of the Constitutional Convention, a signer of the Declaration of Independence,...
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