All posts tagged "John Adams"
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14.9K16MassachusettsJohn Adams Wishes Thomas Jefferson ‘Many Happy New Years’
On New Year’s Day 1812, former president John Adams picked up his quill pen at his home in Quincy, Mass., and wrote...
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21.7K16Business and LaborThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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13.7K2Politics and MilitaryCongress in 1800: Tumult, Anger and an Unfinished Capitol
On Nov. 17, 1800, New England’s 39 representatives to the U. S. Congress met in Washington, D.C., for the first time. They...
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8.5KIrregularsJohnny Tremain Inspired by John Adams’ Boyhood Friend
The classic young adult book Johnny Tremain is still popular 80 years after Esther Forbes first wrote it (despite Walt Disney’s treatment)....
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