All posts tagged "laws"
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9.2K4Religion and Social MovementsIn the Gilded Age, Marriages Began in NY and Ended in RI, America’s Divorce Capital
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, if your wife or husband told you they wanted to spend a few winter months...
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94.4K33ConnecticutWay More Than the Scarlet Letter: Puritan Punishments
In their rigid enforcement of community standards, New England’s Puritan punishments often often included the bilbo, the cleft stick, the brand, the ear...
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65.0KBusiness and LaborArt Young – Connecticut Cartoonist for Truth, Justice and the Working Man
A century ago, Connecticut’s Art Young was a radical political cartoonist, and many of his drawings would be as relevant today as...
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9.3K3Religion and Social MovementsNew England Wedding Customs: Quilts, Mirrors, Quakers and Bees
New England wedding customs and superstitions in the 1700s mixed home-grown ideas and practices imported mainly from Britain. Some wedding customs, like ...
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8.5KMassachusettsAbner Kneeland, The Free-Speech Martyr Convicted of Blasphemy in 1838
Abner Kneeland was a powerful and energetic Universalist minister whose religious doubts and political beliefs sent him to a Massachusetts prison in...
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24.9K7Crime and ScandalMary Latham Marries an Older Man – And Regrets It
Around 1643, Mary Latham fell in love with a boy who rejected her. About 17 years old and impetuous, Mary Latham decided...
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