All posts tagged "John Adams"
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9.0K4ConnecticutThe Six Oldest Courthouses in New England
Some of the oldest courthouses in New England have had revolutionaries argue cases in them. Patriots, heroes and traitors walked within their...
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7.6K4MaineJohn Adams in Maine: ‘The Sharpest Thorn on which I ever set my foot’
Beginning in 1765, John Adams made annual trips to Maine to argue cases before the courts at York, Falmouth (now Portland) and...
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9.1K8MassachusettsJohn Adams Outlaws Fake News in 1798 – and Dooms His Presidency
Government criticism of ‘Fake news’ is nothing new. And trying to silence it was as unpopular in the early days of the...
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11.4K2Arts and LeisureThe Pet Names of Famous New Englanders
When the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they brought with them two dogs described as a spaniel and a mastiff....
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41.1K35bostonA Brief History of the Boston Brahmin
There’s more to being a Boston Brahmin than simply having an early Puritan ancestor, graduating from Harvard and living on Beacon Hill....
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9.8K10Arts and LeisureSix Churches (All Gorgeous) Designed by Ralph Adams Cram
Once the most famous architect of his day, Ralph Adams Cram designed many churches (mostly Episcopal), schools and libraries in New England....
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7.2K5MassachusettsYoung John Adams Struggles With School, Vexes His Parents
Young John Adams frustrated his pious father and vexed his hot-tempered mother with his dislike of school and love of the outdoors....
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9.4K1MassachusettsIn 1773, Ansell Nickerson Was a Dead Man Walking Until John Adams Stepped In
In 1773 the outlook for Ansell Nickerson, a sailor, was not a good one. Jailed, accused of murdering four men and in...
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18.3K2Connecticut6 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
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12.7K8Connecticut6 Revolutionary Taverns
The American Revolution probably wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the Revolutionary taverns where patriots and Loyalists gathered to talk...
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