All posts tagged "letter"
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23.9K3MassachusettsDid Thanksgiving Cost John Adams His Presidency? He Thought It Did
Today people will undoubtedly celebrate Thanksgiving in some fashion across America. But for President John Adams, Thanksgiving was very much an optional...
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11.9K2Arts and LeisureThe Mysterious 1644 Portrait of Roger Williams
A portrait of Roger Williams is easy to sketch in words: Baptist minister banished from Massachusetts, founding father of Rhode Island and...
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57.9K2New England PlacesSix Stunning Gothic Revival Buildings By Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
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33.2K1Rhode IslandObadiah Holmes, The Baptist Martyr The Puritans Should Have Left Alone
The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts viewed Obadiah Holmes as a loathsome Baptist, and they ordered him whipped 30 times in public. They...
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26.2K4ConnecticutEight Things You Didn’t Know About the Pumpkin (But Want To)
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
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11.2KBusiness and LaborJoseph Dudley and the Private Bank That Sank Him
Money in the 1600s was a volatile topic in the colonies. In a financial crisis, a currency shortage would freeze up the...
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