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Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
For centuries, New England’s borders were anything but stable, and New Englanders didn’t agree on what they were. Maine was once part...
The Seventh of March Speech was one of the most famous orations delivered by Daniel Webster, an orator who had no equal....
The educational reformer who founded Miss Porter’s School in 1843 could not have imagined the fame, fortune, scandal and accomplishment her students...