All posts tagged "imperialism"
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3.9K1Arts and LeisureHow the Mark Twain Library Started With Books He Defaced
The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Conn., started with 200 books donated by local resident Mark Twain – books he’d scribbled over...
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25.0K8ConnecticutWhen Cleveland Belonged to Connecticut
The City of Cleveland and nearly all of Northeastern Ohio once belonged to Connecticut. The land, 3.5 million acres of it, was...
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4.0KMassachusettsGeorge Stalwart Boutwell, Champion of the Oppressed
On May 2, 1879, The Hon. George Stalwart Boutwell was offering “a thousand acres of land in Groton, Mass., to negro exodus...
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