John F. Kennedy Archives - New England Historical Society

Six Fun Facts About Kurt Vonnegut on Cape Cod

Kurt Vonnegut wrote the kind of books that students in the 1960s bought to stoke their outrage and disdain. Outrage over the...

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Politics and Military

Rhode Island’s Little Annapolis: The PT Boat Training Center at Melville

During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...

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Arts and Leisure

Norman Mailer Pans the Jackie Kennedy White House Tour

Three out of every four Americans watched the Jackie Kennedy White House tour on television on Feb. 14, 1962. During the broadcast,...

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9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy

Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...

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New England Places

Six Presidential Houses in New England

Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...

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8 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King in New England

Martin Luther King spent plenty of time in New England, and not just giving speeches about civil rights. He worked in Connecticut...

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Massachusetts

11 Famous People Committed to McLean Mental Hospital

Sylvia Plath called McLean mental hospital the best mental hospital in the United States. U.S. News & World Report did too. Though...

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Massachusetts

John 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...