All posts tagged "laws"
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16.4K8ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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50.0K6New HampshireWentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Revere
Wentworth Cheswell is considered New Hampshire’s first archaeologist and the first African-American elected to public office in the United States. He also...
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29.7K13bostonA Poorhouse in Each New England State
The poorhouse was once a very real and often feared part of life in New England. Poorhouses evolved from the English poor...
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22.5K3ConnecticutThe 1919 Christmas Eve Massacre and the Mobster Who Got Away With Murder
On Christmas Eve and Christmas day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
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10.9K7MassachusettsIn 1685 Massachusetts Legalized Christmas, to Samuel Sewall’s Dismay
In 1685, a tolerant wind blew briefly through England when James II ascended to the throne. He ordered greater freedom for Roman...
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30.8K2Business and LaborAnnie Jenness Miller Rescues Fashion Victims of the 1890s
Annie Jenness Miller came down from the mountains of New Hampshire with a message for the women of America: “Take off your...
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