All posts tagged "heroes"
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94.7K30MassachusettsThe Heroic Rescue of the Pendleton Crew, 1952
On Feb. 18, 1952, four men risked their lives in a howling nor’easter off Cape Cod to save 32 mariners on the shipwrecked...
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18.2K39MassachusettsThe Hope and Glory of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
In the middle of the Civil War, 1,007 African-American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment disembarked at Boston South Station with 37...
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19.7K8ConnecticutAlice Cogswell Changed the World for Deaf People
Alice Cogswell was a precocious little girl from Hartford, Conn. She was just nine years old in 1814 when she met her...
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