All posts tagged "jefferson"
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5.5K2Business and LaborThe New England Opium Crisis of 1805
New England’s role in the opium trade in the early 1800s is a little-noted phenomenon. New England opium trade produced considerable wealth...
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4.3K4MassachusettsJohn Adams’ Seriously OCD Nephew Founds the Boston Athenaeum
The stately Boston Athenaeum at 10-1/2 Beacon St. owes its storied existence to William Smith Shaw, the obsessive, sickly, curmudgeonly, hard-drinking nephew...
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4.5KNew HampshireFrançois-Jean de Chastellux Meets 250 New Hampshire Cows in 1780
François-Jean de Chastellux, the French philosopher, writer and general, travelled to America in 1780 as part of the French expeditionary force in...
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9.3K2Politics and Military12 Fascinating Facts About the Fourth of July
The Fourth of July from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannonfire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over...
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6.7K4ConnecticutHow The Spirit of 76 Became World War I Propaganda
The Spirit of 76 reappeared again and again after the American Revolution as an idea, as a symbol and as a propaganda...
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13.7K10ConnecticutJohn 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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