All posts tagged "immigrant history"
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3.8KConnecticutBridgeport Elects a Socialist Mayor Again and Again and Again
Bridgeport, Conn., elected for 24 years a socialist mayor named Jasper McLevy, beloved in the city despite his friendship with a notorious...
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8.0K2Arts and LeisureThe L Street Brownies New Year’s Plunge Starts With Washing the Unwashed
The L Street Brownies annual New Year’s Day plunge had its beginnings with pious reformers who wanted to wash the unwashed —...
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6.1K4Business and Labor100 Years ago in 1915, Independence Day Was Americanization Day
“What is Americanization?” Future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Brandeis posed the question to a packed audience at Faneuil Hall in Boston marking...
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