All posts tagged "literature"
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17.3K7MassachusettsJonathan Edwards Loses His Pulpit Over Bad Books
Jonathan Edwards, the great Puritan theologian, helped ignite a religious revival known as the First Great Awakening across the 13 colonies. He...
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8.3K1Arts and LeisureSeabiscuit Takes His First Step to Fame at Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit, the knock-kneed little horse with the big heart, met the man who made him a champion at Suffolk Downs Race Course...
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12.0K1Arts and LeisureElizabeth Ellet Writes Women Into the History of the Revolution, Infuriates Edgar Allan Poe
Elizabeth Ellet recorded the lives of the women of the American Revolution – and meddled in the life of Edgar Allan Poe....
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37.2K2Arts and LeisureKahlil Gibran Gets His Picture Taken in Boston
A Lebanese boy named Kahlil Gibran got a lift out of Boston’s slums from a wealthy Bohemian who liked to take pictures....
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16.3K11Arts and LeisureMolly Spotted Elk, From Poverty in Old Town, Maine, to Fame in Paris — and Back
In the fall of 1931, 27-year-old Molly Spotted Elk was far from home and unsure about marrying her French journalist lover. She...
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13.8K12Flashback PhotosWalden Pond, Then and Now in Pictures
Around the time 27-year-old Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond, the Fitchburg Railroad opened on its banks, about a third of...
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